Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Logan , 54 , said : ‘ He normally stayed at top hotels . |
2 | If he ever arrived at that most famous of all Dwarf Holds the Dwarf records do not tell . |
3 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
4 | Last season he hardly played at all because of his medical studies , but according to Barry Wilson , the club professional at Shandon , his big game has never been sharper . |
5 | He completed his studies at St Catharine 's College , Cambridge , which he also represented at various games . |
6 | He also wrote at this time The Advocate ( 1652 ) , in defence of the Navigation Act , and a related economic tract , Free Ports ( 1652 ) . |
7 | He also decided at that moment , to his own amazement , that somehow , some time , he would have her as his wife . |
8 | He formerly lived at 29 Euterpe Street , Donegall Road , Belfast . |
9 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
10 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
11 | He simply smiled at that . |
12 | He then expanded at some length on this theme . |
13 | These qualities were already present to a degree in certain early works , such as the Forfar town hall and the contemporary Kirriemuir church , while at Melville the somewhat perfunctory detail in the castellated style is accompanied by other features reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane [ q.v. ] ; but his style developed rapidly after his Parisian visit of 1787 , when he doubtless encountered at first hand the revolutionary architecture of E.-L . |