Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wanted on drug charges , he may end up at the centre of an extraordinary trial in Miami . |
| 2 | His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours . |
| 3 | He must sit upright at a table to eat his meals : he can not eat off a tray sitting in bed or an easy chair . |
| 4 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 5 | He 'll go anywhere at the ring of a phone , and he spends much time on the road . |
| 6 | The difference was that he could go home at the end of every shift . |
| 7 | Or if by any chance the boat was not there , or too securely chained , he could swim across at a pinch . |
| 8 | He could call in at the Informer office in Chancery Lane and use the telephone to arrange a suitably stimulating lunch . |
| 9 | And he could gain much at a peace conference , without having to fight for it . |
| 10 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 11 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 12 | He used to live up at The Dial . |
| 13 | He used to scream even at the idea of fresh air , but now he spends all his time outside in his wheelchair , with Miss Mary and Dickon Sowerby . |
| 14 | If anyone was to blame , it was the anti-drugs policy of successive governments , and especially president Richard Nixon 's , but that 's another talking point on which he would hold forth at the drop of a hat . |
| 15 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 16 | John Browne , the Conservative MP for Winchester since 1979 , announced on March 15 , 1990 , that he would stand down at the next general election . |
| 17 | He could exhibit a saint-like submissiveness , become a mere servant of art , willing to learn from anyone ; he would sit patiently at the bedsides of the sick and dying , painting unhappy men and women and feeling awe before peasant earth-mothers , but he could never be coerced into doing anything against his will . |
| 18 | He would sit down at a table , take a sheet of writing paper , and discharge himself into me . |
| 19 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 20 | He would turn up at the Gloucester and Cheltenham festivals , eager to discuss writing projects and agonising over a contracting market . |
| 21 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 22 | At the end of each evening he would stumble home at an hour when most of the villagers were in bed asleep . |
| 23 | Joshua 6 ends with a curse pronounced over the charred corpses of the city 's inhabitants , promising anyone who might rebuild the city that he will do so at the cost of the lives of his own children . |
| 24 | Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July . |
| 25 | With his team having their worst season since 1983 , Ditka 's first as coach , speculation is growing he will bow out at the end of the year . |
| 26 | Offiah is hoping he can fly home at the weekend in readiness for the reconstruction surgery on his shoulder on Tuesday . |