Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Gesta clearly states ( though very briefly ) that he studied at the great law university of Bologna . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 ’ . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | He studied at the Royal College of Art before teaching at St Martin 's School of Art and is course tutor at Colchester Institute . |
| 36 | He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London , under A. W. von Hofmann , and in 1860 joined as a partner the well established chemical manufacturing business founded by his grandfather , Luke Howard [ q.v. ] , in 1807 . |
| 37 | He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 . |
| 38 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 39 | He gestured at the dog-eaten hoofs and roots of buffalo horn which stretched before us . |
| 40 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 41 | He claimed at the Tory Conference , in a phrase that he must by now be sick of hearing thrown back at him , that he would intervene before breakfast , lunch and dinner . |
| 42 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 43 | Like everyone else on holiday , he thought he had ‘ got away from it all ’ for a few days until he arrived at the famous White Horse Inn and was confronted by … fellow Fellow ( ! ) |
| 44 | He arrived at the crowded town square near Bogota and was born shoulder high to climb up onto the back of a truck to make his campaign speech . |
| 45 | In calculating the time when a review is due , the starting point is : ( a ) where a person is arrested outside the police station ( i ) the time he arrives at the relevant station ; or ( ii ) the time 24 hours after the time of his arrest , whichever is the earlier ; ( b ) where a person attends the police station voluntarily and is subsequently arrested there the time of arrest ; ( c ) where a person is arrested outside England and Wales : ( i ) the time he arrives at the first station to which he is taken in the police area in which the offence for which he has been arrested is being investigated ; or ( ii ) 24 hours after the time of his entry into the country whichever is the earlier ; ( d ) where a person is arrested in another part of the country and has to be taken to the police area where the offence is being investigated for questioning — the time at which he arrived at the first police station in the police area in question . |
| 46 | For example , he arrived at the contentious conclusion that the dramatic increase in recorded crime during the period of post-war economic growth in the United States had ruled out poverty and deprivation as being causes of crime . |
| 47 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 48 | When he arrived at the right house he checked the number carefully against his piece of paper . |
| 49 | By a different route , he arrived at the same conclusion of ‘ proportionality ’ as retribution required . |
| 50 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 51 | No ’ — he nodded at the babbling drawing-room behind them — ‘ this is just froth . |
| 52 | He nodded at the second tunnel mouth . |
| 53 | He nodded at the black boy , who was n't listening . |
| 54 | He frowned at the pencilled details . |
| 55 | He danced at the Royal Albert Hall , the Mansion House , and in front of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at the Chelsea Hospital . |
| 56 | ‘ Get her off me , he bellowed at the other grooms . |
| 57 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
| 58 | He landed at the first aerodrome he saw . |
| 59 | He stiffened at the soft sound of her voice , and his head lifted , his eyes carfully veiled . |
| 60 | She had blinds on the window and said she would n't be long when he knocked at the locked door . |