Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he accomplished at the sea-battle of Svold , on 9 September 999 . |
| 2 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 3 | In May 1612 he matriculated at the Academy of Geneva and later attended the Calvinist Academy of Saumur . |
| 4 | In late 1940 he established at the estate of Camphill , near Aberdeen , Scotland , a small residential school for children in need of special care . |
| 5 | In 1941 he enrolled at the Slade , which had been evacuated to Oxford . |
| 6 | Burton dug into himself and , as he always did with work he reverenced , laid all he had at the service of the part . |
| 7 | An Arsenal friend of mine admitted that all he wanted at the moment was for Leeds to catch Scum . |
| 8 | In the reign of Henry II he accounted at the Exchequer for ‘ the pannage of all the forests of England ’ . |
| 9 | In 1930 he presided at the eleventh International Veterinary Congress in London . |
| 10 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 11 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 12 | He withdrew from active life and retired to Kenilworth where on the 4 January 1927 he died at the age of seventy-seven . |
| 13 | His early education came chiefly from his father , but in 1856 he enrolled at the Royal College of Chemistry and studied for a year under A. W. von Hoffmann , before becoming assistant chemist to J. T. Way at the Royal Agricultural Society . |
| 14 | His armour of cynicism was shown up as useless ; all he could feel was how desperately he had wanted the job and how bitter he felt at the injustice that had taken it away from him . |