Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said , " Burgess is at home , and I 've asked him to report to you at the mortuary . |
| 2 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 3 | Briefly she toyed with the idea of perhaps ringing Lubor Ondrus , of perhaps inviting him to dine with her at her hotel , and then asking him to approach his employer on her behalf . |
| 4 | Once man has habituated himself to the world of emotions which is a form of the transcendent , it is possible for him to cross into it at will . |
| 5 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 6 | It will ask him to send to me at Baker Street the pocket book I left at the Hall . ’ |
| 7 | He always used to speak so bitterly about his experiences as a monk that it seemed bizarre to think of him working alongside them at Hurstdown . |
| 8 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 9 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
| 10 | When the post of Missioner at Warrington became vacant , he applied for it at the age of 38 , and he remained at Warrington until his retirement thirty years later . |
| 11 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 12 | He got into it at school , but his friends moved on . |
| 13 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 14 | He gazed around him at the late afternoon sky . |
| 15 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 16 | Then he gallops towards it at terrific speed . |
| 17 | He responds to us all in different ways , to his sister , Amanda , he 's always smiled at her and we say that he looks at her at her in his cute way . ’ |
| 18 | Throughout his life the author loved and drew inspiration from the whole region , from Smailholm to ‘ Scott 's View ’ above the river Tweed and the house he built for himself at Abbotsford . |
| 19 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 20 | The Woodvilles had given no grounds for complaint when he moved against them at the end of April , and the protectorate was still viable in mid June when he chose to end it . |
| 21 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 22 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 23 | He proposed to her at the offices of Faber and Faber ; after she had accepted , he explained that he would have asked her much sooner if he had known her real feelings towards him , but she had been so formal with him that he was not even sure if she liked him — which , after eight years , suggests an odd insecurity or impercipience . |
| 24 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 25 | Although on occasion he functioned as leader of the Congress movement , the ascendancy he achieved over it was purely personal , and he could make it seem as though he played with it at will . |
| 26 | When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire , he looked the complete tearaway . |
| 27 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 28 | Noah 's knowledge of the law applicable to gipsies surprised Arnold Peck , but now he glanced about him at the listening gipsies . |
| 29 | He calls for me at nine , |
| 30 | Was he running for it at last ? |