Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawings he made at various ports of call provide the main burden of this show arranged by the Goethe-Institut . |
| 2 | With unseeing eyes he gazed at usual offices , charming patios , ‘ Ideal ’ boilers , and mature fruit-trees . |
| 3 | He was about to catch a taxi home from Swindon town centre at just after midnight , when he stopped at public toilets . |
| 4 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 5 | Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet . |
| 6 | He arrived at these numbers by comparing reported AIDS cases in homosexual/bisexual males for the UK in 1986 and 1987 ( 785 ) with reports for 1988 and 1989 ( 1268 ) and for 1990 and 1991 ( 1907 ) . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the case breaks new ground , that he acted at all times on legal advice and that wise counsel should permit the case to go before the House of Lords rather than rush to judgment now ? |
| 8 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 9 | He took their biggest manual model , and he tipped at both ends , the ideal customer . |
| 10 | On leaving school , between 1912 and 1914 he taught at three schools , the last of them Northcliffe House School , Bognor . |
| 11 | He glanced at both men . |
| 12 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 13 | But he brightened at these words of encouragement , for their kindly tone more than their meaning . |
| 14 | He looked at both women . |
| 15 | He chose the blackjack from a selection on a velvet tray , and then he looked at some handcuffs — real ones , this time , but heavier than regulation and suggestive of overkill . |
| 16 | He aimed at fifteen miles a day , and they would march down the southern flanks of the Pentland Hills , to Biggar and Broughton and thence by Tweedsmuir to Moffat , at the head of Annandale , some sixty miles . |
| 17 | Similarly , he performed at various locations in the States , reading his poetry to the accompaniment of Maury Kay , a well known jazz musician of the time . |
| 18 | He was warned of at least 15 contacts in the Cranfield overhead by the Luton Approach controller and instructed to contact Cranfield by radio which he did at 1227:05 hrs , stating his altitude as 2000 feet . |
| 19 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This case involved the 74-year-old ‘ soccer superfan ’ known for the Union Jack waistcoat and John Bull costume he sported at international matches . |
| 22 | And er I can remember one day a driver , Len his name was and he er he said to the inspector , oh he says er I 've been through Corfe Junction he said at sixty miles an hour ! |
| 23 | ‘ The working class is about to blow , ’ he said at other times . |
| 24 | His atrocities were numberless ; at the height of his career he struck at whole nations . |