Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 2 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 3 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 4 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 5 | But he had also hinted at a sexual relationship with one of his American university professors , and with the editor of a certain American music magazine , with whom he had spent a vacation in Hairi . |
| 6 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 7 | He liked Mrs. Blick one of the old school , always addressed by name , a caring sort Good Morning Mrs B. Over the years their relationship has developed so that Art now called her Mrs B. He had once served at a library committee but that was when her husband was alive many years ago . |
| 8 | South of Naples he had once lunched at a restaurant where they had endeavoured to translate the menu into English . |