Example sentences of "and he [vb past] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's had three winners in four days , and he had at Fakenham yesterday , at fifteen to eight , so not too bad a day for again yesterday . |
| 2 | And he glanced at Graham as he pushed copies of the two London evening papers across the desk . |
| 3 | And he stared at Jed for a moment , then he smiled slowly . |
| 4 | Like Alexei , he had nails on the ends of his fingers instead of talons , and he stared at Alexei 's hands as he gave him a filled cup , then raised his eyes and bowed solemnly . |
| 5 | There was the field path to Nod , where the grass brushed Paul 's shoulder in high summer and he looked at marguerites and red sorrel at eye-level . |
| 6 | The attendant 's smile faded rapidly and he looked at Donna with narrowed eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ 'E needs a good romp in the fields , ’ and he looked at Willie , and I reckon you do an' all , he thought . |
| 8 | Not fer me mind , ’ and he looked at Willie trundling on ahead . |
| 9 | And he looked at McAllister sitting primly before him , hands in her lap , the face beneath the lace cap so enchanting that Angela Macleod , née Deverill , and all her works , flew away forever , and he knew again where his heart now lay . |
| 10 | ‘ No , I do n't think we 've met , ’ said Nigel Steen , and he looked at Charles intently . |
| 11 | One director used him in Waiting for Godot , and he felt at home in a straight play at last , but unfortunately a critic wrote four hundred words about the Christly nature of the moment when he took his hat off . |
| 12 | And he lunged at Anwar with a carrot that was Lying to hand . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | His health began to deteriorate seriously towards the end of 1826 and he died at South Bank 17 February 1827 . |
| 16 | In the early summer of 1940 he was quietly retired and he died at Emberton , Olney , Buckinghamshire , 27 March 1942 . |
| 17 | But , ’ and he nodded at Tundrish , ‘ your reply best describes what our Scouts squads must do now : help restore true law through wanton terrorism . |
| 18 | He suggested that the king should finance the war out of his own resources , and he hinted at corruption at court . |
| 19 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 20 | And he pointed at Philip . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Do n't you know war 's goin' to be declared any second , ’ and he waved at Willie . |