Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may sit at a table , which has to be big enough to spread the garment out on it . |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 3 | Special considerations : the appellant was originally put on probation with a requirement that he should reside at a probation hostel which specialised in providing treatment for young men guilty of indecent assault . |
| 4 | Packman Eyres was suspended for six matches after the Wembley Cup final loss to Wigan and the Chemics want Eyres to sign for Mal Meninga 's Raiders to reduce the ban he must serve at the start of the next English season . |
| 5 | And he 'll jump at the chance to write to me . |
| 6 | He might sink at the end of his eighth length in the pool and have to drop to a walk during his second mile , and shoot a fair proportion of his pellets off the target altogether , but his ride … his ride would have the spectators reeling with wonder . |
| 7 | Bracing himself , ready for whatever he might find at the bottom . |
| 8 | When it mattered , Leonard was a learner ; he could sit at a man 's feet and absorb completely . |
| 9 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 10 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 11 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 12 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 13 | He 'd bark at a bird wo n't it ? |
| 14 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 15 | Of course he 'd jump at the chance of wearing the most famous shirt in the Premier Division . |
| 16 | He 'd look at a problem and come up with a totally different answer to the one you 'd expect … |
| 17 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 18 | Mr Brown grew up in Darlington where his parents , Mr and Mrs Allan Brown , still live in Coatham Crescent , and in his youth he used to stand at a vantage point near the Whessoe Road/ Honeypot Lane junction to watch the rally cars speeding on their way , never dreaming that one day he would be among them . |
| 19 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 20 | Probably , in his youth , some tone deaf colleague had told him that he possessed a good voice , ever since when , he would arise at every opportunity , usually by reluctant request , and then po-faced with hand on heart , would bellow ‘ Come into the garden Maude ’ , watched by a captive audience and a proud , watery-eyed wife . |
| 21 | At Tangier , he would stay at an hotel nearby . ’ |
| 22 | Time and time again he would stare at the ground , hand on hip , if he thought he had received a bad call , and then swallow his anger and play tennis . |
| 23 | Thus , to George 's great indignation , he would arrive at a racecourse to hear that the cup for the 2.30 was about to be presented to the winner by Mrs Frank Coven , when he thought it ought to be presented by Lord Wigg . |
| 24 | Each day he would arrive at the theatre at two or three in the afternoon , long before the 7.30pm performance . |
| 25 | Through each performance he would stand at the rear of the audience , his arms crossed and his head sunk down into his body as he peered intently at the stage . |
| 26 | He would move at the end of the day . |
| 27 | He took the notebook with him ; sometimes he would sit at a desk or table and write , losing any idea of time or place , roused later by the discovery that his leg had gone numb or he had cramp in his foot . |
| 28 | Their king is Aillen mac Midha , and in the past he would sit at the foot of the Palace ramparts , slender and blue-green , and with the chill faery blood of all the sidh in his veins . |
| 29 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |
| 30 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |