Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |
| 2 | And laid them : thus he came at length |
| 3 | When he was shot he was not wearing his jacket or tie so presumably he felt at home , wherever it was . ’ |
| 4 | And then he struck at Fiver and scratched his ear . " |
| 5 | There he sat at home on his Oxfordshire farm every few months , behaving like a one-man Greek chorus , informing us ( he had every intention even then of publishing well short of the thirty-year limit ) of the vicissitudes of the British Constitution . |
| 6 | Simon , s brother , John , saw himself as one of the new breed of Conservatives , who were not bound by class ; yet he complained at length about other branches who ‘ look down their noses at us ’ . |