Example sentences of "at the [adj] [noun] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 2 | Becker hints at the inside model when he concludes , not without generating some confusion , that ‘ whether a given act is deviant or not depends in part on the nature of the act ( that is , whether or not it violates some rule ) and in part on what other people do about it ’ . |
| 3 | As already mentioned , the defendant may submit a defence up to the return day and even at the pre-trial review if he or she is prepared to risk costs being awarded against him or her . |
| 4 | It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival . |
| 5 | Corbett asked the others to stay at the great gate whilst he went across the open square . |
| 6 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 7 | Lady Mary smiled at the young man as he doffed his topper to her , and walked her horse on , uncertain for a moment of her guest 's identity . |
| 8 | Yanto looked at the two girls as he spoke . |
| 9 | Paul , 21 , broke down in tears when he was asked at the Old Bailey if he intended to kill or seriously injure Oxford graduate John Lavender . |
| 10 | For the last decade , such accolades have been heard more rarely since Mr Swinton chose a hermit 's life in the West Country and no paintings of his have come before the Selection Committee at the Royal Academy since he left London . |
| 11 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 12 | Emmie felt sorry for him and angry at the same time because he made things so difficult . |
| 13 | It was difficult while they were actually in the centre , of course , but she made sure she did n't go for coffee or to the staff canteen at the same time as him and she 'd avoided the social club completely . |
| 14 | They have also aroused Protestant anger against Dr Runcie , at the same time as he has become involved in a row over his attack on the ‘ Pharisees ’ of British society . |
| 15 | Yet at the same time as he was representing members of the Cali cartel , Mr Abbell was on Capitol Hill lobbying for changes in the international treaty on extradition which would favour the defendants in such cases . |
| 16 | At the same time as he was working on individual buildings , King produced his lists of all the castles in Wales and the Marches , as well as more detailed papers on the counties of Breconshire and Cardiganshire . |
| 17 | At the same time as he was engaged in more political work , Marx attempted to rewrite the history of mankind for the use of the oppressed , so that they would be able to understand the nature of the oppression to which they were subjected , and how it had come about . |
| 18 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 19 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 20 | Behind the garden were several acres of rough pasture , which Mr Coleby had bought at the same time as he bought the strip of wasteland that linked the pasture to Champney Road . |
| 21 | In 1870 , with James Gray of Chelsea , Fleming erected new glasshouses at Cliveden , at the same time as he was engaged in landscaping a valley on the estate which was praised by William Robinson [ q.v. ] as a fine example of wild gardening ( Garden , 14 September 1872 , p. 235 ) . |
| 22 | Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying : |
| 23 | At the same time as he stood up he slid his hands beneath her skirts and let them rise up her legs to her thighs , his face quite wickedly triumphant at his own cunning . |
| 24 | Slipping back to rescue the camera case , Jack was charmed and moved to see Hans quietly remove all the addresses from his anorak pocket and throw them casually on the fire at the same time as he ordered a English beer . |
| 25 | Beveridge became more sanguine about the level of full employment which could be achieved at the same time as he proposed less control by the government over the economy . |
| 26 | Thus , the radically Falangist General Yagüe was sacked as Air Minister , but Franco appointed an enthusiastically pro-Axis ambassador to Berlin ; and at the same time as he accepted Allied economic aid , he wrote letters of warm support to Hitler and Mussolini , and granted Germany and Italy access to military facilities in Spain . |
| 27 | He condemns the monk : at the same time as he acknowledges the monk 's ingenuity that has provided him with his sexual reward : This monk does not suffer the retributive poetic justice that is so frequently met with by lecherous clerics in the French fabliaux . |
| 28 | ‘ For an actor of his calibre , ’ recalls Gerald Thomas , ‘ and he was of a very high calibre indeed , he had the inability to play dialogue at the same time as he was handling props . |
| 29 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 30 | At the same time as he announced the establishment of the committee , Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine also called on Britain 's top 1,000 companies to form a " green club " committed to cutting pollution and producing environmentally sound products . |