Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | FRIENDS fed Anthony Gray a load of codswallop during a fishing trip.His fishy tale of finding a missing gold wristwatch inside a cod 's stomach appears to be a wind-up.National and local papers , television and radio crews fell hook , line and sinker , for the 29-year-old Sizewell B steel erector 's story , but the EADT decided to investigate the claims further.Mr Gray found the watch in the belly of a fish which he landed at Aldeburgh . |
2 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that the protocol on social policy which he agreed at Maastricht means that , when social policy and employment standards are discussed in the Community , the United Kingdom ’ shall not take part ’ , shall not vote or have a voice ? |
3 | Coleridge 's recollections of his Ottery childhood survive chiefly in the resonant and deeply-felt autobiographical letters which he wrote at Tom Poole 's request during 1797–8 . |
4 | Indeed the Baron himself has almost given up buying ( a recent exception was Constable 's ‘ The Lock ’ , which he acquired at Sotheby 's in 1991 for over £10 million ) , as works of sufficient importance appear so rarely on the market and cost so much when they do . |
5 | He had a strong feeling for architecture , as for natural history , and his preferred subjects were urban views and outdoor scenes with buildings , animals , and plants , notably the magnolias and orchids which he cultivated at Corsham . |
6 | The swing from suspicion to welcome which he met at Durham he now met at Cambridge . |
7 | He was educated at Westminster School , where he specialized in classics and then in science , which he continued at King 's College , Cambridge . |
8 | Brave and good in the air , Dave consistently proved his ability to find the net at all levels , but perhaps the goal for which he will be best remembered by Palace fans of the period was that which he scored at Elland Road , Leeds , in January 1976 when 3rd Division Palace dismissed the mighty Yorkshire outfit on our way to our first FA Cup semi-final . |
9 | Secondly , the popular and extremely helpful courses which he organised at Woolley Hall , the West Riding Teacher Centre . |
10 | The policeman had found a torch , which he shone at Duncan . |
11 | There is an initial paradox here of some importance for the future : the monastic life which he found at Canterbury appeared to him so decayed that it needed a new beginning , yet he did not sweep it away and establish an up-to-date archiepiscopal church served by a community of secular clerks , on the pattern of Rouen or Lyons or most other cathedral churches in Europe . |
12 | Self-taught as an artist , Bacon designed furniture and rugs which he showed at Queensbury Mews Studio in 1929 . |
13 | Birch 's piers were noteworthy for their screw-pile method of construction , which he pioneered at Margate . |
14 | Jean-Francois Baroni , a newcomer to the Salon specialising in Italian drawings , failed to sell the rare portrait of Countess Skavronsky by Vigee le Brun which he bought at Sotheby 's New York in January for $4,500 . |
15 | But the one he had at Cheam was a lovely house ! |
16 | and he 's never had a better job than what he had at Widnes , I 'll tell you ! |
17 | He hated what he saw at Evanston . |
18 | Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack . |