Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the teacher can not sit in splendid and comfortable isolation in staff room or on classroom dais while his pupils are busily engrossed in resource-based exercises ; he is involved at every point in the process , from the preliminary planning and assembly of available materials , the creation of additional resources and linking items , the initial presentation and motivation sessions , the follow-up work as the pupils proceed , and the eventual summing up and validation at the end . |
| 2 | He is stopped at the door by an emaciated woman with a grotesque burn injury , whom I have not seen before . |
| 3 | Undeterred , the opposition demanded that he be questioned at the hospital . |
| 4 | His student visa is only valid as long as he 's enrolled at a school , so we went to Clive and tried to get him expelled . |
| 5 | He was in surprisingly good humour , considering how much he 's suffered at the hands of the puppet . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I 'll look up the books he 's written at the college library and take a couple out , ’ said Loretta airily . |
| 7 | Thorfinn said , ‘ He 's arrived at the coast and judged our numbers . |
| 8 | And not just because he 's affronted at the idea of a dragon beating him over 100 metres . |
| 9 | In January 1985 , before he was supplanted at the top by Lendl , the New Yorker defeated the stern Czechoslovak in straight sets in the Masters final . |
| 10 | He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% . |
| 11 | In 1030 he was killed at the battle of Stiklestad ( near Trondheim ) by his own people , and Cnut then put his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Swegen in charge there . |
| 12 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 13 | Scott , of Holt Street , Hartlepool , was the youngest person to have the implant when he was treated at the NRI last October . |
| 14 | He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter . |
| 15 | He was asked at the Dec. 30 meeting to continue for the two months while new structures were elaborated . |
| 16 | He was met at the airport . |
| 17 | In an attempt to out-Flynn Errol Flynn , he was seen at a party drunkenly trying to make love to one young girl after another . |
| 18 | The many underground railway schemes on which he was engaged at the time of his death had to be completed by others , but the Greathead shield is his lasting memorial . |
| 19 | While he was detained at the police station a number of police-officers used a key taken from the arrested man to enter his mother 's home . |
| 20 | He was sent at the age of 14 to work as an office boy at the city railway station . |
| 21 | He was born at a time when the great majority of musicians were employed by patrons — wealthy aristocrats , monarchs , or prelates — or as civic musicians working for a town council . |
| 22 | He was detected at the check-out point before he had paid for the joint and later convicted of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 23 | I could n't decide whether he was doing this to make me even more relaxed , like a television warm-up man , or because he was over-excited at the prospect of getting at my polyps . |
| 24 | But more , were one to accept the date given in the traditional account , one would also have to accept that in the space of something less than three years Molla Husrev was appointed to and then abandoned the posts to which he was appointed at the death of Hizir Bey , went to Bursa , built a medrese and taught there , and returned to Istanbul to accept the office of Mufti . |
| 25 | If he was based at a school governed by the Church of England , then the Catechism would have to be recited , and some examination by a priest would be necessary . |
| 26 | He was trained at the École Nationale d'Administration , which is the national administration training school , and in fact at the École Polytechnique as well , which is , so he was one of the few people who went through both the elite training establishments , and he served as a civil servant for a while before turning to political life and getting elected as a Member of Parliament . |
| 27 | He was employed at the time at Killingworth colliery , in charge of the steam engines used to raise coal and water from the mines . |
| 28 | He was seated at an easel . |
| 29 | He was seated at the desk , about to dial Frankfurt , when the door was thrown open and a uniformed guard entered the room . |
| 30 | He was seated at the back of the court , initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets , but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her . |