Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today he had seen violence at first hand . |
| 2 | He had to meet Martin at four o'clock and he had to kill time till then . |
| 3 | During the party leadership contest much emphasis had been placed in the media on the fact that Major had not had the advantage of a privileged home background or education , that his father had once been a trapeze artist , that his family had lived in a flat in Brixton in South London , and that he had left school at 16 and been unemployed for some time . |
| 4 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
| 5 | He had left school at sixteen to make money . |