Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 2 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 3 | Then , on the death of his father in 1737 , he succeeded at the age of twenty-one to the Radway estate , which the latter had bought in 1712 , and to the life of a cultured country gentleman . |
| 4 | This meant that some of his own sons were already adult when he succeeded at the age of 35 : his eldest son Lothar was nearly 20 — old enough to provide an alternative focus of loyalty for aspiring nobles . |
| 5 | But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream . |
| 6 | The Milan court held Mr de Benedetti had profited unfairly by receiving a £20m share package in an Ambrosiano subsidiary , as well as the 2 p.c. share value in the bank which he sold at the end of his tenure . |
| 7 | Commissioned in the 4th Regiment of Foot , he fought at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and then served in the Netherlands , where he may have gained experience of hydraulic engineering . |
| 8 | He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ . |
| 9 | Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’ |
| 10 | That he was in Bursa by this time would seem to be borne out by his association with Molla Fenari 's son , Mehmed Sah , whose he became at the medrese of Mehmed I ( the Sultan medrese ) in Bursa . |
| 11 | Later , from about 1690 , he operated at the sign of Hermes Head in Well Yard , west Smithfield . |
| 12 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 13 | He found at the edge of his consciousness the wish that he was just going to his own flat to crash out rather than back to share Catherine 's warm bed . |
| 14 | Hirst 's recovery from the ankle bone he cracked at the end of August is most encouraging , following the failure of Arsenal 's Ian Wright to click alongside Alan Shearer . |
| 15 | He presided at the councils of Piacenza and Clermont ( 1095 ) , and preached with fervour war against the infidel , for the defence of Christendom and the recovery of the holy places . |
| 16 | He peered at the piece of paper . |
| 17 | He peered at the end of it , wondering about bloodstains . |
| 18 | It repeated and enlarged upon the treatment he used at the Board of Trade and Privy Council Offices , with the main entrance , under a large dome , into a grand hall 320 feet long by 150 feet wide ( 97.540 × 45.720 m ) on the site of the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | As he stopped at the gate of the field , Bathsheba looked up and noticed him . |
| 20 | He stopped at the door of the flat directly above his own , the empty place . |
| 21 | A few yards further on he stopped at the edge of a grove of trees . |
| 22 | He stopped at the foot of the stairs and stared at her . |
| 23 | He stopped at the foot of the stairs as if he had just escorted her there and was off somewhere else . |
| 24 | Late one night , he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter . |
| 25 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 26 | He trembled at the thought of ghosts . |
| 27 | He sucked at the end of his pen again , reluctant to push any deeper into the dank treescape of his own memories . |
| 28 | The veins standing out on his neck , he shouted at the top of his voice : ‘ We 're going to crucify this stuff . |
| 29 | Right he then went to the pulpit and he said that he was gon na preach about Lazarus actually but he 's a quiet fellow and he shouted at the top of his voice I 'm speaking about satanic bondage ! |
| 30 | He is now 10.5 months old and has made no developmental progress since the time of his injury which he sustained at the age of four weeks . |