Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 2 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 3 | He lived at the settlement for helping London boys , Cambridge House . |
| 4 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He stabbed at the paper with his knife until he 'd cut a hole big enough , and pulled one of them out . |
| 8 | ‘ Cos I know a lot about fish.in He beamed at the crowd around us , then turned to the tank once more . |
| 9 | But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | and he asked at the pier for my father |
| 16 | He gazed at the view from his living-room window : a quiet square , plane trees , early-morning shoppers . |
| 17 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
| 18 | Later , from about 1690 , he operated at the sign of Hermes Head in Well Yard , west Smithfield . |
| 19 | He qualified at the College in 1824 , being rather older than most of the students , and was appointed demonstrator in anatomy by Coleman . |
| 20 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He peered at the piece of paper . |
| 25 | He peered at the end of it , wondering about bloodstains . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As he stopped at the gate of the field , Bathsheba looked up and noticed him . |
| 28 | He stopped at the door of the flat directly above his own , the empty place . |
| 29 | A few yards further on he stopped at the edge of a grove of trees . |
| 30 | He stopped at the foot of the stairs and stared at her . |