Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 2 | I LIKED Kevin and I know how he felt at the start of the film . |
| 3 | Cowdrey recalled how he felt at the time . |
| 4 | In his autobiography , ‘ Inward Hunger ’ , ( 1969 ) Williams gives us an insight to how he felt at the end of this speech , ‘ the audience had listened with rapt attention ’ … then … |
| 5 | Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’ |
| 6 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |
| 7 | Andrew , now 29 , was 15 that summer when he knocked at the door and introduced himself . |
| 8 | Tommy Cooper talking at length about when he ruled at the Den and we 'll be talking to about his Norwegian career and his arrival at the City ground . |
| 9 | Twelve months ago , when he arrived at the Courtyard Marriott on the night of his triumph , following the small dinner the club always gives the new champion , he was happy with a can or two of beer while everyone else drank champagne . |
| 10 | It was an improvement on last week when he arrived at the place , though . |
| 11 | There were extraordinary scenes when he arrived at the LSE . |
| 12 | He continued to box until 1914 , when he retired at the age of fifty-two . |
| 13 | AN alleged IRA gunman wore nothing but a pair of boxer shorts when he appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with murder . |
| 14 | Edward Fakeney , who 's forty-seven and from Northampton , pleaded not guilty to murdering Mr Farmer when he appeared at the Crown Court . |
| 15 | Allison claims to have started the idea in 1978 when he worked at the Clinical Research Centre in Harrow . |
| 16 | Alford Grammar school also had a hand in the education of Captain John Smith before he went to Louth and Thomas Paine , famous for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania and for his written works , in particular ‘ The Rights of Man ’ , lived here for several years when he worked at the Excise Office . |
| 17 | A third took him into the garden where he looked at the neat undisturbed flower-beds . |
| 18 | He grew up in Holland until at the age of I3 he was sent to live with his uncle , Henri Curiel , in Egypt , where he studied at the English school . |
| 19 | He comes from Dusseldorf , where he studied at the famous Academy with Gerhard Richter , and shows large landscape paintings in which the natural is disturbed by human interventions , all seen from a rather high vantage point . |
| 20 | In 1841 he went to Paris , where he studied at the Jardin des Plantes , before returning to England to become Paxton 's assistant . |
| 21 | Impressed by the Method masters ' formidable screen and stage presence , Allen left fringe theatre for New York , where he studied at the famous Strasberg Institute ( former pupils include Marilyn Monroe and Method 's godfather Brando ) and worked by night as a doorman at the fashionable club , Nell 's , ’ to pay the rent ’ . |
| 22 | He picked up the tray of tea things and took them to the kitchen where he glanced at the clock . |
| 23 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 24 | ( Henry ) Wooden , his valet for seven years who on his marriage left his service and came to Henley where he worked at the Brewery for 30 years . |
| 25 | They continued their walk , rousing the surly porter from where he crouched at the edge of the track , chewing a piece of fresh grass . |
| 26 | Lee had risen and moved to where he sat at the table and was showing him the completed unicorn 's head . |