Example sentences of "he [vb past] at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 2 | About to leave the room with the intention of driving immediately away , he checked at a slight sound by the open door to the outside and looked around . |
| 3 | Richard Roberts seized the opportunity to contract with landowners for the purchase of their wood and furze crop , which he sold at a handsome profit to the tinners . |
| 4 | He stopped at a small , quiet pub and bought a meal , then went on again . |
| 5 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 6 | He stopped at a little roadside inn and found inside an old woman at work with a spinning wheel , like ‘ a dark silhouette out of a fairy tale ’ , and beyond her , through the window , the clear sky and a path through the delicate green , and geese pecking in the grass . |
| 7 | Driving back from a game with fellow coloureds , he stopped at a white sports ground to watch a match played by members of the SACU . |
| 8 | As a youngster , growing up in the declining Lanarkshire coalfields , he trained at a local Junior ground wearing his father 's pit boots , trying to add strength and shape to his diminutive body . |
| 9 | ‘ Where 's Raimundo ? ’ he shouted at a wincing Umberto . |
| 10 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 11 | ‘ Any messages ? ’ he barked at a subdued-looking Leif , still sitting in his favourite place in the inglenook of the great fireplace . |
| 12 | Once in the street he walked at a gentle pace . |
| 13 | He grinned at a secret joke . |
| 14 | For two years he taught at a preparatory school in Reigate , before being appointed head of the English department at Stowe by the school 's headmaster , J. F. Roxburgh [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | He sniffed at a half-empty carton of goat 's milk yoghurt . |
| 16 | He worked at a pharmaceutical firm processing chlorthalidone and nifedipine , but 5 days ago had been moved to the micronisation of glibenclamide , only recently introduced at the firm . |
| 17 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 18 | The pose had thrust his hips sideways as he leant at a slight angle and his free hand was at the level of his pelvis , thumb hooked into the waistband of his jeans , fingers doubled into a loose fist at the top of his hard , powerful thigh . |
| 19 | When his mind came round to considering this embarrassing enslavement of his macho male self to a mere animal , he felt at a complete loss to understand it . |
| 20 | but erm he won at a huge long was it the er Queen Alexandra |
| 21 | Though Kenya 's Martin Suji , who is on a development tour , took only one wicket , he bowled at a lively pace , and the 21-year-old is likely to face the Scots in next year 's Associate Members Cup in his own country , if Scotland are accepted into the competition . |
| 22 | Even the New Forest Hunt master admitted it was wrong when he spoke at a rival press conference . |
| 23 | ‘ We know that as an issue animal welfare is being widely discussed in the UK , ’ he said at a Danish Bacon and Meat Council ( DBMC ) trade event . |
| 24 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 25 | He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber , and wrote and played with his thinning hair . |
| 26 | He sat at a large desk covered with papers , journals , medical books , a portable typewriter pushed to one end . |
| 27 | In 1986 , he destroyed at a single stroke the stranglehold of the unions over the British newspaper industry by removing his operation overnight to non-union Wapping . |
| 28 | He picked at a home-made roll and popped a piece of it into his mouth . |
| 29 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |