Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 2 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |
| 3 | He touched down at Upper Heyford right on schedule at 1.55 a.m. local time , disturbing the sleep of the villagers beneath him as he made his final turn into the approach lights . |
| 4 | He was also keen to return North and Lawrence wasted no time when he took over at Ayresome Park . |
| 5 | What I would say is that Liam was inexperienced in management when he took over at Celtic Park . |
| 6 | He appeared to be asleep but when he saw officers he took off at high speed . |
| 7 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
| 8 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 9 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 10 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 11 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |