Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 2 | Sadly , until his behaviour becomes more reliable he has to remain at arm 's length . |
| 3 | A school-leaver may indeed immediately use some of the practical skills he has learned at school , exactly as he has been taught them . |
| 4 | ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home . |
| 5 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
| 6 | Round-the-World yachtsman Chay Blyth , 51 , is being sued for divorce by his wife , Margaret , on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour because of the time he has spent at sea . |
| 7 | ‘ He wants to seem at ease and be friendly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He wants to play at politics . |
| 9 | All that it would take would be a couple more calls like the one that he 'd received at home , at three o'clock that same morning , from the night manager of a certain parkside hotel . |
| 10 | I would rather he 'd stayed at home with us , but it was his choice , and he 's not a child any longer . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd recorded a telephone conversation — a call he 'd taken at home . |
| 12 | He 'd returned at dawn , creeping into the apartment so as not to wake her . |
| 13 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 14 | When he came to work at lunchtime , his first question was : ‘ How goes it ? |
| 15 | Bruce says … he learnt to climb at school … |
| 16 | " Well , " Mr Smith began , a pained expression on his face as he turned to look at Grout again , " if that 's the way you really feel , Steve … " |
| 17 | He had the air of an aristocrat and as he turned to gaze at Blackberry from his great , brown eyes , Hazel began to see himself as a ragged wanderer , leader of a gang of vagabonds . |
| 18 | He prefers to stay at home with his wife and two children , shunning ritzy Hollywood parties . |
| 19 | The others , he paid to stay at home and practise . |
| 20 | He started betting at greyhound stadiums , then extended to pony racing at Northolt Park , and in 1934 opened a one-room office in Jermyn Street . |
| 21 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 22 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |
| 23 | He must have wished he had stayed at home . |
| 24 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 25 | Green had developed a passion for a university law student he had met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 26 | Reginald had discarded his officer 's uniform that he had worn at dinner and was now dressed in ordinary dark trousers and a blue-velvet smoking jacket . |
| 27 | He was sitting on the edge of the bed , his collar loosened and the tie he had worn at dinner hanging loose about his neck . |
| 28 | As bishop , Desiderius had occasion to write about numerous specific issues , but he also took time to maintain the friendships he had made at court . |
| 29 | After being seen whizzing out of the doors of a rink , he had to skate at speed along a footpath of the common , round a spiral pedestrian walkway , on to a road , grab the back of a passing bus , let go , cut across a main road between cars coming in both directions , go across another road — between the wheels of a moving articulated lorry — and end up in a babywear shop , somersaulting into a cot . |
| 30 | Haynes and Richardson opened and put on exactly 100 , then Richards , on his home ground , marched out , the first time he had batted at number three for some while . |