Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view is developed in a way which partly reduplicates the misleading tactics he identifies at work in the 1950s . |
| 2 | As soon as the Indian earns three reales a day , he will never work more than half the week , so that he will still have the same nine reales he gets at present . |
| 3 | In the nine years he remained at school his closest companions were to include Bob Allen , Val le Grice , and Thomas Middleton ; but no friend proved more lasting or dependable than the gifted , tongue-tied Charles Lamb , son of a minor official at the Inner Temple . |
| 4 | For 20-30 minutes he fired at lunchtime diners with two large-capacity ammunition clip semi-automatic pistols , before finally killing himself . |
| 5 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 6 | Pretty soon , if you consider that the only gags he feels at home with are the ones that get stuffed in his mouth in the interest of his , er , research . |
| 7 | In the first sixteen chapters he looks at reformation in faith which is open to all through the sacraments of baptism — the means of restoration from the consequences of original sin — and penance , the means of recovery from individual sin . |