Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1985 , before he was supplanted at the top by Lendl , the New Yorker defeated the stern Czechoslovak in straight sets in the Masters final . |
| 2 | He was represented at the hearing of his Appeal by the Association and the Tribunal increased the assessment to 80% . |
| 3 | In 1030 he was killed at the battle of Stiklestad ( near Trondheim ) by his own people , and Cnut then put his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Swegen in charge there . |
| 4 | Instead , he was troubled at the start by a cold which has been with him since last week . |
| 5 | Scott , of Holt Street , Hartlepool , was the youngest person to have the implant when he was treated at the NRI last October . |
| 6 | He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter . |
| 7 | He was met at the airport . |
| 8 | The many underground railway schemes on which he was engaged at the time of his death had to be completed by others , but the Greathead shield is his lasting memorial . |
| 9 | He was sent at the age of 14 to work as an office boy at the city railway station . |
| 10 | He was detected at the check-out point before he had paid for the joint and later convicted of theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 . |
| 11 | I could n't decide whether he was doing this to make me even more relaxed , like a television warm-up man , or because he was over-excited at the prospect of getting at my polyps . |
| 12 | But more , were one to accept the date given in the traditional account , one would also have to accept that in the space of something less than three years Molla Husrev was appointed to and then abandoned the posts to which he was appointed at the death of Hizir Bey , went to Bursa , built a medrese and taught there , and returned to Istanbul to accept the office of Mufti . |
| 13 | He was employed at the time at Killingworth colliery , in charge of the steam engines used to raise coal and water from the mines . |
| 14 | He was seated at the desk , about to dial Frankfurt , when the door was thrown open and a uniformed guard entered the room . |
| 15 | He was seated at the back of the court , initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets , but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her . |
| 16 | As soon as he was seated at the table she poured and handed wine , and he marked the breadth and strength of the shapely hand that offered the cup , and realised suddenly , noting the blue cloth sleeve of her gown , that she had already shed her mourning . |
| 17 | He said it in English , slowly , as though enjoying the sound of the words , and he added with a secret little smile , ‘ That happened just before he was recalled at the request of Lami Dozo himself . |
| 18 | Above the arch of its clock tower is an eroded stone said to be miraculously imprinted with the features of Patrick Hamilton as he was burnt at the stake before it in 1528 . |
| 19 | This effectively marked the end of William Whitelaw 's service as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and he was succeeded at the beginning of December by Francis Pym . |
| 20 | He was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to Robert Napier [ q.v. ] at the Vulcan works in Glasgow , at the same time attending classes at the Andersonian Institution in the city . |
| 21 | In Florence , Wolfgang met his English contemporary , Thomas Linley — another supremely gifted prodigy who was to die tragically young ( he was drowned at the age of 21 ) . |
| 22 | When he was approached at the end of 1987 to become the Pru 's finance director he was tempted away , partly because the tremendous growth of PW had created ‘ more of a loss of identity as individual partners ’ and partly because it offered a new and exciting role . |
| 23 | He was educated at the Oratory School , Birmingham ( 1878–84 ) and read history at Trinity College , Oxford ( 1884–8 ) , gaining a second class in modern history in 1888 . |
| 24 | He was educated at the village school and at Glasgow University . |
| 25 | He was educated at the village school , learning to read and write , but otherwise he was self-taught . |
| 26 | He was educated at the village school in Buckland , and from 1862 at Culham Teacher Training College , near Oxford , gaining a first-class certificate there in 1864 . |
| 27 | He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe . |
| 28 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 29 | He was educated at the Perse School and at Christ 's College , Cambridge ( senior scholar ) . |
| 30 | He was educated at the University of Leiden between 1747 and 1749 , and then entered the family 's banking business . |