Example sentences of "he [verb] [conj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He insists that at the moment there is no such point of friction within the England camp . |
2 | He recovered but at the age of 22 was left almost completely bald and had to wear a wig , a fashion he discarded in the heat of India . |
3 | He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy . |
4 | He says that at the end of the Laws of Moses one finds the following words : " Moses , having heard the words of God , transmitted them to the Jews . " |
5 | ‘ This can not be accident , it must be design , ’ he commented when at the age of 65 his great hour came . |
6 | He stated that at the time he left , 1859/60 , the holdings were made into one large holding . |
7 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
8 | He notes that at the time that Hoover was engaged in this exercise , a basic Italian washing machine was gaining market share against a heavily promoted German product , in Germany . |
9 | He confesses that at the age of 40 he had reached ‘ the proverbial midlife crisis ’ and was searching for a different way of life . |
10 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
11 | He said that at the party conference , those who feared they had a weak leader , could take comfort from the belief that there was a strong man waiting in the wings to take over . |
12 | He said that at the end of the day the appeal court was concerned with the proper interpretation of the act and the issue turned on the words used in it . |
13 | A typical example is his remarks at the Cabinet meeting which approved the employment White Paper , when he suggested that at the beginning of a slump the Cabinet should declare a ‘ Salute the stomach ’ week along the lines of the wartime ‘ Salute the soldier ’ weeks , but with the emphasis on spending rather than saving . |
14 | Will he re-emphasise that at the end of the day the document is all about contracting out to produce as good a service at less cost or a better service at the same price ? |