Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 2 | 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 ! ) . |
| 3 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 4 | He lived at the settlement for helping London boys , Cambridge House . |
| 5 | Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site . |
| 6 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 7 | On 7 March he entertained at the hotel — the bill No. 216 amounting to £16.50 was posted to his account . |
| 8 | Then , on the death of his father in 1737 , he succeeded at the age of twenty-one to the Radway estate , which the latter had bought in 1712 , and to the life of a cultured country gentleman . |
| 9 | This meant that some of his own sons were already adult when he succeeded at the age of 35 : his eldest son Lothar was nearly 20 — old enough to provide an alternative focus of loyalty for aspiring nobles . |
| 10 | He stabbed at the paper with his knife until he 'd cut a hole big enough , and pulled one of them out . |
| 11 | ‘ Cos I know a lot about fish.in He beamed at the crowd around us , then turned to the tank once more . |
| 12 | But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream . |
| 13 | Tommy Cooper talking at length about when he ruled at the Den and we 'll be talking to about his Norwegian career and his arrival at the City ground . |
| 14 | He winked at the Duke and called across to him , ‘ What a grand thing , your Honour , to have a wedding without a minister ! ’ |
| 15 | He winked at the wizard . |
| 16 | He winked at the boy . |
| 17 | The Milan court held Mr de Benedetti had profited unfairly by receiving a £20m share package in an Ambrosiano subsidiary , as well as the 2 p.c. share value in the bank which he sold at the end of his tenure . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 's a former patient of the Wolfeson , and is cared for by his wife , a nurse who he met at the centre . |
| 20 | The Profitboss , in developing his contacts , never forgets that the friendly Steven Cook he met at the conference last month might just be the head of purchasing for a major customer in two years ' time . |
| 21 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 22 | It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's . |
| 23 | ‘ We told him it was a holiday in case he blabbed at the border , ’ his parents explained . |
| 24 | Commissioned in the 4th Regiment of Foot , he fought at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and then served in the Netherlands , where he may have gained experience of hydraulic engineering . |
| 25 | He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ . |
| 26 | This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date . |
| 27 | Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’ |
| 28 | That he was in Bursa by this time would seem to be borne out by his association with Molla Fenari 's son , Mehmed Sah , whose he became at the medrese of Mehmed I ( the Sultan medrese ) in Bursa . |
| 29 | and he asked at the pier for my father |
| 30 | And he started clearing to get this slate , and he got at the slate quite quick . |