Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 2 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 3 | There was a young woman there , an attractive girl he guessed at twenty-two , who had been introduced to him as Suzanne Simonis . |
| 4 | She may have been three years older than he was , pushing forty and not quite as pert as the sort of girl he favoured at this precise moment , but one day Jack would grow up , look for a real woman to take care of him , and there she 'd be , waiting and ready . |
| 5 | On his return he settled at last under the protection of Cuthbert , first in the saint 's own resting place at Durham , then in a hermitage under the protection of Durham cathedral priory at Finchale by the river Wear — and the rest of his life is filled with his prayers and visions and miracles at Finchale . |
| 6 | That apart Derby are unstoppable at home and it must be some consolation to Arthur Cox that the twelve million pound team he assembled at last looks the part . |
| 7 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 8 | And er I can remember one day a driver , Len his name was and he er he said to the inspector , oh he says er I 've been through Corfe Junction he said at sixty miles an hour ! |
| 9 | He explains that an Englishman he knew at Czech radio used always to get the usual toast na zdrave ( health ) wrong , confusing it with nadraži , meaning ‘ railway station ’ . |
| 10 | The next day he starts at one car coming around a bend a little fast . |
| 11 | The finale he takes at one of the fastest speeds on record ( 1'08 ’ ) , creating , without recourse to pedal haze and with only the slightest dynamic gradations within Chopin 's requested sotto voce e legato , as haunting an impression of the eerie intangibility of eddying ‘ wind over graves ’ as you could ever hope to hear from human fingers . |
| 12 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 13 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 14 | His atrocities were numberless ; at the height of his career he struck at whole nations . |
| 15 | He 's disappointed the firm he joined at 13 have tarnished the start of his retirement . |
| 16 | Grant felt light-headed , but he could not tell whether it was due to the drug taking effect , or the happiness he felt at this news . |
| 17 | After much hesitation he had at last begun work on an autobiography which , sadly , remains unfinished . |
| 18 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 19 | This was not the sort of situation he liked at all . |
| 20 | This case involved the 74-year-old ‘ soccer superfan ’ known for the Union Jack waistcoat and John Bull costume he sported at international matches . |
| 21 | you go and have a look at that one in the bathroom any way he looked at that mark , so if it was any thing |
| 22 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 23 | Andy Caddick ( ‘ He 'll get a few 0 for 70s , that will be the real test of temperament , ’ Cottam had said ) maybe has n't sustained the outstanding promise he showed at 2nd XI level last summer . |
| 24 | His more general position is perhaps best summed up by an extract from the speech he made at 3.10 in the morning of 20 May 1992 during the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 25 | The speech he delivered at Labour Party 's headquarters in Walworth Road , at the moment he had confidently expected to be entering Downing St in triumph , was the most moving I have heard from any British politician since Churchill . |
| 26 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 27 | And the easiest way to ensure that — a readiness to criticise the Government at each and every turn — is the one temptation he has at all costs to resist . |