Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] 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 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 4 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 5 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |
| 6 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 7 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 8 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Okay , so he rings at ten o'clock , ten thirty in the morning . |
| 12 | He knew that Aileen was not interested in him , so he sat at one of Tildy 's tables , said nothing , and ate his fish . |
| 13 | ‘ The baker works in the back , you see , so he does n't show a light until he opens at six . |
| 14 | Pepita grew into a fine , beautiful woman and went to work for the banana shippers as her father had done until he retired at sixty-two . |
| 15 | This was encouraged by the traditional view of a skilled man as one who learned his trade by the age of 21 and thereafter practised it for more than forty years until he retired at 65 . |
| 16 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 17 | If he came at all . |
| 18 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 19 | With Angel gone there was no need to humble herself and inquire if he had at last returned to work . |
| 20 | If he exaggerated at all , it was in supposing that anything I might say mattered all that much . |
| 21 | Also there had been a note of incredulity in Vigo 's voice as if he marvelled at such an old goose begetting a swan . |
| 22 | If he failed at first , he would know better next time . |
| 23 | If he glances at this , he is able to step quickly over it with a good length stride , without tripping or interrupting the rhythmical pattern of normal walking . |
| 24 | Well I think Gary Crosby if he looks at that 'll think he possibly should have scored then . |
| 25 | I suppose if he jibbed at five hundred he 'd hardly part with four thousand , not at a rate of interest we could afford . |
| 26 | Cos he finishes at four o'clock on that day anyway . |
| 27 | If , if your , if your total turnover was sixteen thousand , then the inspector of taxes would want from you an account which shows how your fifteen thou sixteen thousand has been arrived at , who 's paid you this money because he looks at those and he checks their accounts to see they 've received it obviously , that 's what it is , and wh how is your five thousand pounds made up . |
| 28 | Mr Mitterrand appears so delighted with the ultra-courteous Edouard Balladur , that some Socialists wonder whether he has at last found the prime minister of his dreams . |
| 29 | After leaving the church Dalgliesh went briefly back to the Yard to pick up his files on Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers and it was after midday before he arrived at 62 Campden Hill Square . |
| 30 | Long day is n't it , when he goes at half past seven in the morning . |