Example sentences of "he [verb] at [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 2 | Despite pleas by senior police officers and the Crown Prosecution Service to remand Hagans in custody , the bench granted him bail , ordering him to stay at the Ryecroft Bail Hostel in Gloucester . |
| 3 | Cowley could see him sitting at the garden table , staring blankly into the distance . |
| 4 | But the quick-thinking cabbie , who picked up the woman from a pub in Exeter , Devon , alerted a cashier when the hijacker ordered him to stop at a motorway service station for cigarettes . |
| 5 | Nicholas Soames , the aristocratically toned and booming Tory MP for Crawley , can still make him stumble at the despatch box by muttering ‘ Another G and T , Giovanni ’ . |
| 6 | He lives — with Judy , his wife of 24 years — in Ealing , West London , where he drinks at the cricket club and , along with the Kinnocks , is one of the local celebrities . |
| 7 | This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date . |
| 8 | He gazed at a glass block , soaring upwards , in whose mirror cliff-face swam the distorted white reflection of a Wren church spire . |
| 9 | He gazed at the cream wall opposite , unblinking . |
| 10 | He gazed at the throat wounds with extraordinary concentration , but made no move to touch the body except to run his hand lightly over the back of the head , like a caress . |
| 11 | He glances at the kitchen clock . |
| 12 | His work , which he pursued at the Town Hall , was never mentioned in the house , and as far as Clara could gather it was mathematical , highly respectable , and highly dull . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm alone , ’ he thundered at the television screen . |
| 14 | The plane is overloaded , ’ he shouted at the ground staff , the colour rising in his face . |
| 15 | If the Secretary of State wishes to be believed at the Dispatch Box , he must honour what he says at the Dispatch Box . |
| 16 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 17 | ’ He turned at the kitchen door . |
| 18 | He claimed at a press conference that the plant 's management and government officials had deliberately played down the scale of the fire . |
| 19 | In April 1974 , seven months after the coup which brought Pinochet to power , he arrived at the Air Force base of Colina on the outskirts of Santiago to begin his two years of military service . |
| 20 | When he arrived at the rehearsal room on the Friday , Charles found the author in a state of extreme annoyance . |
| 21 | Twelve months ago , when he arrived at the Courtyard Marriott on the night of his triumph , following the small dinner the club always gives the new champion , he was happy with a can or two of beer while everyone else drank champagne . |
| 22 | He did n't allow himself to think about Zoe until he arrived at the field entrance to the cottage . |
| 23 | Steve Hinson got a sinking feeling when he arrived at the Acorn Resource Centre for the physically disabled in West Berkshire . |
| 24 | Gary fancied the uniform of the Coldstream Guards when he arrived at the recruiting office . |
| 25 | just before he arrived at the school Victor Gollancz left its staff , ejected because he tried to rouse boys ' minds by heady and daring political argument . |
| 26 | He arrived at the Virgin offices , breathless , panicked and still in his underpants . |
| 27 | He arrived at the conference hall after having a Campaign Group leaflet thrust into his hand . |
| 28 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 29 | After a 200-mile taxi journey , he arrived at the palace gates of the Maharajah of Rewa — at 2am . |
| 30 | Eventually , puffing and panting , he arrived at the security gate . |