Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’ |
| 2 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 3 | He pawed at the Daily Telegraph but failed to find whatever he was looking for and lit a cigarette instead . |
| 4 | He winked at the other man who was watching Oliver sullenly . |
| 5 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 6 | Slowly raising his head , Ross stared down at his wife , his grey eyes stormy with passion as he gazed at the blonde hair forming a golden halo about her head , and the creamy skin of her naked body , gleaming in the light of the soft lamps . |
| 7 | He looked down , and as he gazed at the sleeping child his eyes glittered with what looked suspiciously like unshed tears . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's wonderful , ’ he gasped , as he gazed at the little face and held each tiny hand , studying the miniature nails in wonderment . |
| 9 | He gazed at the assembled company . |
| 10 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 11 | The animal , alarmed by such rapid movement , now sprang to his full height , his great unsheathed paws beating the air as he strained at the massive steel collar around his neck . |
| 12 | He peered at the long list . |
| 13 | ‘ Pardon ? ’ as he peered at the smaller hump . |
| 14 | He stopped at the first opportunity , and emerged with a lead of 45secs . |
| 15 | He trained at the Central School of Art and Design , but never graduated , joining instead a group of frustrated designers , which included such budding innovationists as Mary Quant and Laura Ashley , who , like Conran himself , were eventually to become household names . |
| 16 | ‘ Flash bastard ! ’ he shouted at the retreating back . |
| 17 | Constable Laurie gave evidence that on 5th August he entered at the back door of 149 Chatham Street , that he received from her 1/9d. , and that she received from him a betting slip . |
| 18 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 19 | The Gesta clearly states ( though very briefly ) that he studied at the great law university of Bologna . |
| 20 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 21 | He grew up in Holland until at the age of I3 he was sent to live with his uncle , Henri Curiel , in Egypt , where he studied at the English school . |
| 22 | He studied at the Royal College of Art before teaching at St Martin 's School of Art and is course tutor at Colchester Institute . |
| 23 | He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London , under A. W. von Hofmann , and in 1860 joined as a partner the well established chemical manufacturing business founded by his grandfather , Luke Howard [ q.v. ] , in 1807 . |
| 24 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 25 | He claimed at the Tory Conference , in a phrase that he must by now be sick of hearing thrown back at him , that he would intervene before breakfast , lunch and dinner . |
| 26 | He arrived at the crowded town square near Bogota and was born shoulder high to climb up onto the back of a truck to make his campaign speech . |
| 27 | For example , he arrived at the contentious conclusion that the dramatic increase in recorded crime during the period of post-war economic growth in the United States had ruled out poverty and deprivation as being causes of crime . |
| 28 | When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper . |
| 29 | By a different route , he arrived at the same conclusion of ‘ proportionality ’ as retribution required . |
| 30 | No ’ — he nodded at the babbling drawing-room behind them — ‘ this is just froth . |