Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Rohan needed to have a private word with her , why had n't he arranged to see her at the house instead ? |
| 2 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 3 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 4 | Three-year-old Daniel Hampton was crushed when the 9ft-high and 8ft-wide panel toppled on to him as he tried to climb it at a recreation ground . |
| 5 | He has raced it at the Nurnburg Ring incorporating a five day trip and intends to explore the delights of this new venture to the utmost . |
| 6 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 7 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 8 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 9 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 10 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 11 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 12 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 13 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 14 | However , even if we can not blame him for murdering the other in his sleep , we might respect him more if he did put himself at a disadvantage by clinging to one of his last disintegrating scraps of morality . |
| 15 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 16 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 17 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 18 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 19 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
| 20 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 21 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 22 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 23 | His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next . |
| 24 | When one of the witnesses pointed out that the testator had not signed the will the testator replied that he had signed it at the top and that it could be signed anywhere . |
| 25 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 26 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
| 27 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
| 28 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |