Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wanted on drug charges , he may end up at the centre of an extraordinary trial in Miami . |
| 2 | And he may turn up at any moment with a simple explanation , and wonder what we 've been worrying about . ’ |
| 3 | The next time the hon. Gentleman is on the train for Newcastle he should get off at Darlington and I will arrange a guided tour of that project for him . |
| 4 | It appears to me therefore that if a man diligently followed this desire , pursuing the false objects until their falsity appeared and then resolutely abandoning them , he must come out at last into the clear knowledge that the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay , can not even be imagined as given — in our present mode of subjective and spatio-temporal experience . |
| 5 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 6 | Some nights when his mum Beverley gets home from work , he 'll look up at her and say : ‘ Mummy , I 'm such a wobbly boy . ’ |
| 7 | You tell me you 're scared he might come back at Brett ? |
| 8 | For Camus the sky was a source of sustenance that he could draw on at will ; for me it is a thwarted promise , yearned for and glimpsed against the odds . |
| 9 | He could call in at the Informer office in Chancery Lane and use the telephone to arrange a suitably stimulating lunch . |
| 10 | Vologsky increased his pace , momentarily , gaining a few feet so that he could look back at Kirov 's grim face . |
| 11 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 12 | He could get back at them in some commando-style way . |
| 13 | If he 'd got a down on you , he could get back at you any time he wanted . ’ |
| 14 | At last , Rourke moved , propping himself up on one elbow so that he could gaze down at her . |
| 15 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 16 | And then he 'd get up at two in the morning and start painting . |
| 17 | He 'd get back at them . |
| 18 | Within a week he was a member , within a fortnight he 'd come out at home and within three weeks his father was at the CHE group wanting to know what the hell was going on . |
| 19 | His personal score stood at seven which made him an ace and then came that morning of ferocious winds and driving snow when he 'd come in at four hundred feet , flying blind , lost his engine at the last moment and crash-landed . |
| 20 | Indeed , he used to queue up at Colnaghi in Bond Street for them , this one after Constable , that one after Boudin . |
| 21 | He used to live up at The Dial . |
| 22 | He would change back at Joseph 's digs , but the smoke would linger in his hair and on his skin . |
| 23 | He would lash out at her and afterwards hide himself away in some shady corner where he would sit , his head lowered to his knees , engulfed in a dangerous brooding mood that lingered until the day 's end . |
| 24 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 25 | In the past , habit is expressed by used to or , when a number of habits are referred to , would may be used : I used to walk three miles to school ( every morning ) when I was a child ; He would wake up at about 6.30 . |
| 26 | His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy . |
| 27 | Newman timed it so he would arrive back at Greenway Gardens after dark . |
| 28 | John Browne , the Conservative MP for Winchester since 1979 , announced on March 15 , 1990 , that he would stand down at the next general election . |
| 29 | ‘ If he was he would sit down at the negotiating table with us . ’ |
| 30 | He would sit down at a table , take a sheet of writing paper , and discharge himself into me . |