Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu . |
| 2 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 3 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 4 | At that time of year there were few people about and he sat at a table by himself . |
| 5 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 6 | Bobby had long ago learned the working man 's love of facts as opposed to theories and he always made sure to have a few up his sleeve before he spoke at a union meeting . |
| 7 | Docherty , who reckons that is a real blunder , made his feelings known when he spoke at a soccer club dinner in Norfolk . |
| 8 | Even the New Forest Hunt master admitted it was wrong when he spoke at a rival press conference . |
| 9 | When he called at a little before one in the morning , he was distinctly cool . |
| 10 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 11 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 12 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 13 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |