Example sentences of "he [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 2 | On a more light-hearted note , a friend of mine had become sexually involved with a woman he met at a party , although he confided that he had niggling doubts about the relationship . |
| 3 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 4 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 5 | He gazed at a glass block , soaring upwards , in whose mirror cliff-face swam the distorted white reflection of a Wren church spire . |
| 6 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 7 | He stopped at a gate , and in large red letters on the middle bar of the gate he painted some words from the Bible : |
| 8 | Just then he stopped at a place where a dog had dug a hole in the ground . |
| 9 | He sucked at a bottle of Guinness , and went on fingering the rounds . |
| 10 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 11 | Well he played at a level , I mean er , I mean he but it 's played at a level where it 's loud enough er to have a good boogie on down |
| 12 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard to a girl called Rose he meets at a party , as they sit on the stairs around two in the morning , talking seriously , her dark eyes looking up seriously into his , ‘ I 'm the best mountain-designer in the universe . |
| 14 | He squinted at a car on the road as it hurried north . |
| 15 | He seemed at a loss for words , and Ward made no attempt to help him . |
| 16 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 17 | He claimed at a press conference that the plant 's management and government officials had deliberately played down the scale of the fire . |
| 18 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 19 | He arrived at a decision , threw the cigarette away , and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages . |
| 20 | He arrived at a time when converging philosophical , political , scientific , and economic influences had inspired a number of English landowners to transform their estates into prosperous miniature centres for civilized living . |
| 21 | In the second period , applying a multiplier of six to the figure of fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds and ninety six pence , he arrived at a figure of three hundred and fifty six thousand five hundred and thirty one pounds and seventy six pence . |
| 22 | He arrived at a town surrounded by icebergs and with no road out . |
| 23 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 24 | He nodded at a door that must be the bathroom . |
| 25 | He nodded at a corner booth , " I 'll bring it over . " |
| 26 | He stares at a prance of spray |
| 27 | As he waits at a stop-light somewhere out beyond the freightyards he drums his fingers on the steering wheel and gazes in front of him , thinking . |
| 28 | According to Lincoln 's recollection subsequently , he glanced at a map in his office and decided within ten seconds that the 38th parallel was the correct demarcation line between the zones of American and Soviet occupation . |
| 29 | He glanced at a piece of paper . |
| 30 | He glanced at a list of his evening engagements : Peter Stothard 's and Andrew Neil 's party , the Young Conservatives ' Ball , and a late supper with the Lamonts . |