Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site . |
| 2 | Tommy Cooper talking at length about when he ruled at the Den and we 'll be talking to about his Norwegian career and his arrival at the City ground . |
| 3 | He winked at the Duke and called across to him , ‘ What a grand thing , your Honour , to have a wedding without a minister ! ’ |
| 4 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 5 | He winced at the sight and drew back as though she had struck him . |
| 6 | He stopped at the door and smiled at her . |
| 7 | He stopped at the door and stared in for a minute . |
| 8 | Well when I was last playing with it that James kept on er in and in that erm he stopped at the station and I have to take it like that far enough cos I wanted Gordon to be there so he co could pick up the express pick , up the coaches |
| 9 | He stopped at the Pâtisserie and emerged with an elegant box bearing the insignia of the French Federation of Master Bakers . |
| 10 | He stopped at the fence and looked down at her seriously . |
| 11 | Eventually he stopped at the window-seat and sat down by Elisabeth : ‘ He says we should ask Fru Gertlinger and Fru Børre to act as caretakers of the houses on the usual terms until further notice . |
| 12 | ‘ Go on ! ’ he shouted at the mare and scraped his spurs hard down her flanks . |
| 13 | After the Zombie 's travels through Victorian London ( where , incidentally , he committed the crimes attributed to Jack the Ripper ) he arrived at the Grange and enlisted the help of Tick , a deformed coachman of evil character ( played by Charles Paris ) . |
| 14 | Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it . |
| 15 | He nodded at the photographer and flipped another butt into the toilet , then pressed the flush . |
| 16 | I stood beside him while he cursed at the keys and thumped the side window . |
| 17 | He flexed at the knees and rose slowly . |
| 18 | Andrew , now 29 , was 15 that summer when he knocked at the door and introduced himself . |
| 19 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 20 | He glanced at the clock and nodded his approval without breaking the rhythm created by his fingers on the strings . |
| 21 | He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be . |
| 22 | I 've always admired Ben Hogan for the way he worked at the game and the determination he showed to succeed . |
| 23 | Well my father , when we lived there he worked at the Colliery and he used to walk home and during he s , before before he m before the strike we used to have these pheasants and things , and rabbits which he used to catch , because early morning he seemed to know exactly where to go to get a a pheasant that was roosting in a tree , you see or a bush . |
| 24 | ‘ My uncle is the most successful person I know because he started at the bottom and now has his own business . ’ |
| 25 | He called at the house but the doctor always refused to see him . |
| 26 | He grabbed at the barrel and fell with it so that the power of the big man was added to his own strength . |
| 27 | Bolton Health Authority , which says it learned only on Friday night that the doctor was an AIDS victim , is writing to all 260 patients he treated at the hospital and will make sure they are all contacted and offered counselling and tests if required . |
| 28 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 29 | He lodged at the Waggon and Horses Inn , no. 47–50 , High Street St. Martin 's , and died suddenly on the morning of 21 June 1809 . |
| 30 | Again he looked at the telephone and lit the flame of the lighter . |