Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 2 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 3 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 4 | MacArthur did not regard him as particularly able and remarked on the disappointment he felt at the failure of Japanese politics to produce outstanding personalities . |
| 5 | When an accomplished actor like ( bridegroom 's name ) realizes he is going to have a speaking part in the wedding ceremony he jumps at the opportunity . |
| 6 | I saw the monster arrive from the marsh he looked at the when I saw him I ran |
| 7 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 8 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 9 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |
| 10 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 11 | Clocaenog village he left at a distance on his left hand , and wound his way up into the hills again . |
| 12 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
| 13 | A STREET busker who told a jury he shared Madonna 's views on sex was convicted yesterday of raping a 19-year-old girl he seized at a bus stop . |
| 14 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 15 | Martin Brundle will return to F1 next year as number one driver with Brabham , the team he left at the end of 1989 to join the Jaguar WSPC team . |
| 16 | For a moment he paused at the threshold , but then turned back inside , taking in the sight of an ivory chess set , a small telescope , a number of small fluted carvings , and the fine hangings adorning the wall , observing everything with a cocked head as if listening for something . |
| 17 | The mythic figure of the General — as portrayed in the War Memoirs — had known , from the moment he stood at the top of the Champs Elysées on 26 August 1944 , that the new leaders whom the war had brought to power would betray the cause of national renewal . |
| 18 | Linford Christie also runs his first major individual race of the summer in tonight 's Golden Gala and will be looking for the sort of confidence-booster he gained at the same meeting last year . |
| 19 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
| 20 | The next day he appeared at the Uxbridge Magistrates ’ Court where he admitted having the drug in his possession . |
| 21 | Hirst 's recovery from the ankle bone he cracked at the end of August is most encouraging , following the failure of Arsenal 's Ian Wright to click alongside Alan Shearer . |
| 22 | Then he started to cough , forced himself to control the tickle he felt at the back of his throat . |
| 23 | Otherwise it was added at the table — or to the glass of water he drank at the lectern . |
| 24 | On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' . |
| 25 | Late one night he appeared at the sitting-room door , pale and shaking , crying , ‘ Compeyson , she 's there ! |
| 26 | After demobilization he worked at the National Hospital , Queen Square , and at Hammersmith Hospital , and in 1947 was appointed assistant physician to Dr A. G. Ogilvie at the RVI , where he further developed his neurological interests and established a flourishing private practice . |
| 27 | The blunder he survived at the 15th fence would have sent 99 men out of 100 into orbit . |
| 28 | To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory . |
| 29 | When writing the book Alain-Fournier drew on personal experience : at the age of nineteen he had fallen in love with a young woman he saw at the Lycée and with whom , though they exchanged only a few words , he felt a powerful affinity . |
| 30 | On a more light-hearted note , a friend of mine had become sexually involved with a woman he met at a party , although he confided that he had niggling doubts about the relationship . |