Example sentences of "he [verb] at [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | common and he lived at Grimston and er he got this plot and er what was right next door to it was a sort of real big old li like a French chateau and he wanted a big ge red brick Georgian house , a real big one , sort of sitting at the back of this plot that the owner |
| 2 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 3 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 4 | Outside the village rises the noble hill of Lewesdon , neighbouring peak to Pilsdon Pen , beloved of Wordsworth when he lived at Racedown and first began to dedicate his life to poetry . |
| 5 | He winked at Maidstone and they both laughed out loud . |
| 6 | He winked at Toby and me , standing together in the audience which had gathered round . |
| 7 | He winked at Travis and the silent Paige . |
| 8 | Now of course he sits at home and waits for the cheques ! |
| 9 | McAllister was never able to provide the influential play he produces at Leeds and I do n't think he likes performing on the right hand side . |
| 10 | So he looks at Island and America . |
| 11 | He looks at Candice and she puckers her lips , perhaps ironically . |
| 12 | Certainly he trained at Bologna and was a doctor of civil law by c .1270 , when he was invited to lecture on civil law for a year by the city of Modena in northern Italy . |
| 13 | There , he excelled at maths and won a scholarship to Cambridge in 1967 . |
| 14 | She promises him everything he wants at luncheon and cuts him dead later the same afternoon , looking through him as if he were a veil . |
| 15 | Oh he says I make my own prawn cocktail he says at home and lettuce and |
| 16 | He gossips about the weather and American football , recalls that he played at school and in the Army , and was a big follower of the game . |
| 17 | ‘ Adrian feels he did n't get the success he deserved at Salford and is relishing playing with a side with so many good individual players . ’ |
| 18 | It was nearly dark when he arrived at Stobs and set up his equipment in a previously selected position above a deep cutting on the Whitrope side of the station . |
| 19 | The two special cases in s12(2) should also be noted , namely , a buyer is not to be treated as a consumer where he buys at auction and neither is he where the sale is by competitive tender . |
| 20 | He nodded at Woodruffe and went out . |
| 21 | But Hepzibah says if they ever had to leave and go where there were strangers about who did n't understand his sensitive ways , then he might have to be — well — what he said ] ’ He nodded at Frederick and said , in a low voice , ‘ Shut up in a mad house , or something . ’ |
| 22 | He nodded at Ranulf and the lay brother then turned to Corbett . |
| 23 | He nodded at Stephen and Stephen stood still , waiting for him to turn and go , staring at him and frowning . |
| 24 | He nodded at Corbett and walked out of the hall . |
| 25 | When these boys has come along and Colin would he look at John and what do boys say ? |
| 26 | He replied at length and almost at once . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , but he stays at home and never sees anybody , Mr Holmes ! ’ answered Helen Stoner . |
| 28 | What has happened to this Henry , since he landed at Ravenspur and struck out so baldly for a crown ? ’ |
| 29 | He landed at Durlston and expressed his delight at the beautiful scenery and pure air . |
| 30 | He grinned at Nick and Emmie . |