Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1370 he was with Sir John Chandos [ q.v. ] when he fell at Lussac and subsequently with Sir Robert Knollys [ q.v. ] in Picardy . |
| 2 | He was 14 when he began at Birchfield and that is when his interest in athletics spiralled . |
| 3 | Stories about some kinship between Romans and Greeks gained credit because Demetrius Poliorcetes referred to the " kinship between Romans and Greeks " when he protested at Rome against the pirates of Antium — probably after 295 B.C. ( Strabo 5.3.5 , p. 232 ) . |
| 4 | Previously shown at Washington 's Corcoran Gallery , where the tour was launched almost exactly forty years after his first one-person exhibition held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951 ; at the Menil Foundation in Houston and at Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art , ‘ Robert Rauschenberg : The Early 1950s ’ concentrates upon the artist 's activity between 1949 , when he enrolled at Black Mountain College after a short apprenticeship in Paris , and 1954 , when he embarked upon the most important series of works of his career , the combine paintings and constructions . |
| 5 | The 28-year-old from Liverpool became only the third player to simultaneously hold both the world and UK titles when he triumphed at Preston a year ago . |
| 6 | In November 1804 when he dined at Brathay , Green ‘ was much gratified by the musical performances of the worthy couple . ’ |
| 7 | Bill had heard the news that morning when he arrived at school . |
| 8 | Next day , when he awoke at noon , he was as bright and cheerful as if nothing at all had happened . |
| 9 | His experience of the industry began in 1958 when he worked at Immingham Docks , before transferring to Wallingford as assistant engineer . |
| 10 | He matriculated on 3 April 1699 at Oxford where he studied at Balliol College as ‘ pauper puer ’ . |
| 11 | He was master mason to the prior and chapter of Canterbury by 1496 , but was also active in Cambridge , where he worked at King 's Hall and on Great St Mary 's church . |
| 12 | And er he and I know where he worked at Brass Foundry on Road , and he fell ill . |
| 13 | The living-room was at the back of the house , overlooking the harbour , and from where he sat at table he could see right across Carrick Roads to St Just-in-Roseland . |