Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his way back to his native area around Sorn , Muirkirk and Mauchline , where he slept at various farms , including Garfield , Meadowhead and Priesthill . |
| 2 | Agrippa , although he objected at first , reluctantly consented to write out the warrants and disburse the necessary silver for our journeys . |
| 3 | But poetry and music were not the only things that he wrote at this time . |
| 4 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is no accident that he began at last to find his true identity as a painter , although his dream of sculpting still haunted him . |
| 6 | The eastern Saxons are almost certain to have remained at this time within the orbit of Oswiu and it may also be the case that Aethelwald , the brother of Aethelhere ( HE 111 , 22 ) ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) , received Oswiu 's support as the new king of the eastern Angles ; it is certainly not at all impossible that he ruled at first in a dependent relationship . |
| 7 | A deal would need two big concessions from Mr Gorbachev that he balked at last year . |
| 8 | ‘ No evidence that he had at all . |
| 9 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , she does look better , ’ replied Melissa , thinking that the return of Rodney 's jacket must have convinced Eleanor that he had at last been eliminated from police enquiries . |
| 11 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 12 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the case breaks new ground , that he acted at all times on legal advice and that wise counsel should permit the case to go before the House of Lords rather than rush to judgment now ? |
| 14 | He wanted to sleep , and the prospect of a bed , even one which he would be required to occupy without companionship , was so attractive that he missed at first the signs that all was not well . |
| 15 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 16 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 17 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 18 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 19 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 20 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 21 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 22 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |
| 23 | He knew that Aileen was not interested in him , so he sat at one of Tildy 's tables , said nothing , and ate his fish . |
| 24 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 25 | He took their biggest manual model , and he tipped at both ends , the ideal customer . |
| 26 | Guilty or innocent , it did not matter ; he wanted her back , and he knew at last that , whatever he had felt for Angela Deverill , it was not this . |
| 27 | Anton , his rolling bobbing head , in and out : and his mouth was ghastly , streaming blood and he bit at random , where he could : a cannibal feast , and there seemed no end to Parker , elephant big , but soft and white and easy to bleed , full of smells ; he could , heightened senses , whiff the slightest reek , the ebb and flow , as might a jackal , the strength drawn out of Parker . |
| 28 | And he came at half past seven and he cleaned it and he looked at it , and he said er it was n't anything that he could see , he thinks it was just down draught , but we 've had winds before . |
| 29 | And he looked at the letter and he looked at that photograph and he thought , I ca n't . |
| 30 | He said Right , yes , and he looked at that and Is that everything ? |