Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 3 | Packman Eyres was suspended for six matches after the Wembley Cup final loss to Wigan and the Chemics want Eyres to sign for Mal Meninga 's Raiders to reduce the ban he must serve at the start of the next English season . |
| 4 | He 'll appear at the Renamed National Bowl , now part owned by the Sony Music empire . |
| 5 | And he 'll jump at the chance to write to me . |
| 6 | Though he might jibe at the London Group , his own work was sufficiently acceptable to this conservative exhibiting society for him to be elected a member in 1949 , the same year that he was represented in ‘ The Art of the Book Jacket ’ which , after being shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum , went on tour at home and abroad . |
| 7 | He might sink at the end of his eighth length in the pool and have to drop to a walk during his second mile , and shoot a fair proportion of his pellets off the target altogether , but his ride … his ride would have the spectators reeling with wonder . |
| 8 | For if the student can retrieve an item by dialling a number , he still has to discover what number , and to conceptualize how he might arrive at the correct answer that would give it to him . |
| 9 | Bracing himself , ready for whatever he might find at the bottom . |
| 10 | He could stay at the Palm Springs home of Walter Annenberg , newspaper publisher , millionaire , friend of the Shah 's friend Richard Nixon , former ambassador tot he court of St James , Sullivan was told to convey the invitation in the name of the president and to ask how many people would be travelling with the Shah . |
| 11 | Paradoxically , though , Roxburgh observed that Jess , who he favourably compared with a young Kenny Dalglish , had ‘ become an internationalist ’ at Ibrox by proving he could function at the highest level . |
| 12 | ‘ There was n't a thing he could do at the time , but he 's got his eye on them . ’ |
| 13 | He kept a set of bags packed inside the door of Downing Street , so he could escape at the earliest opportunity to the grouse moors or trout streams . |
| 14 | And when the platform emptied , he could see at the very end of it , a forlorn figure sitting all by herself . |
| 15 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 16 | his beard and everything to a T. He 'd sit at the top of the table , have his stiff white serviette tucked into his waistcoat , and he 's lifted that carving knife and fork until — you sat there and you never said a word . |
| 17 | Of course he 'd jump at the chance of wearing the most famous shirt in the Premier Division . |
| 18 | The point of mentioning John is that he used to work at the massive Hoover plant in West London . |
| 19 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
| 20 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 21 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 22 | For half the year , he would sleep at The Kilns . |
| 23 | The three men watched the animal snuffling among the elder and then , satisfied that he would nibble at the leaves , they left the stable and turned towards the house . |
| 24 | Time and time again he would stare at the ground , hand on hip , if he thought he had received a bad call , and then swallow his anger and play tennis . |
| 25 | Each day he would arrive at the theatre at two or three in the afternoon , long before the 7.30pm performance . |
| 26 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 27 | Lawrence Woodward , director of Elm Farm Research Centre , a small newly formed charity set up to research and develop organic agriculture , wrote to Prince Charles asking if he would speak at the first organic food conference to be held in Cirencester in January 1983 . |
| 28 | Through each performance he would stand at the rear of the audience , his arms crossed and his head sunk down into his body as he peered intently at the stage . |
| 29 | He would move at the end of the day . |
| 30 | He would sit at the head of the long table , the various amounts were packed in white paper with the name of the recipient on each . |