Example sentences of "he [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 2 | No one could make him stay at school . |
| 3 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 4 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 5 | They were happy , I think , that I had found such a good friend , and did everything they could to make him feel at home . |
| 6 | And Jim had some familiar faces around to make him feel at home . |
| 7 | Or some chum of Matt 's put it there to make him feel at home . |
| 8 | This applied in particular to the Prior , Father Stephen Bedale , a man of huge stature and extrovert character , and the kind of man who , had he been a layman , might have given the poet a hearty slap on the back in the belief that this would make him feel at home . |
| 9 | When it came to the interview he was somewhat nervous and on the defensive ( not being an old hand at it ) , and while I did my best to make him feel at ease , I felt it incumbent to put questions about the Roman Catholic Church 's teachings on divorce , homosexuality , abortion , celibacy , etc. , the answers to which I believed would be of interest to Catholics and non-Catholics alike . |
| 10 | Holly was bubbling with the story of him arriving at work to find someone else installed in his office and his personal possessions in a heap in the corridor . |
| 11 | The image of him sobbing at night as he nursed his physical and psychological wounds is heart-rending . |
| 12 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 13 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 14 | ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 15 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 16 | Section 29 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( P. & C.E. Act ) provides that he should be informed at once that he is under arrest if a decision is taken to prevent him leaving at will . |
| 17 | It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her . |
| 18 | Mr Szuluk was refused a clothing grant from the Department of Social Security , which said that because he lived at home with his parents , he was n't a priority case . |
| 19 | I can tell you that he lived at number forty-one I think , yes forty- one if , if you know if you want any confirmation , that is correct . |
| 20 | From then on he lived at Place , assisting his mother , who lived until 1842 , in running her property . |
| 21 | He plays at centre-back for his club and country but is equally at home in central midfield . |
| 22 | He plays at centre-back for his club and country but is equally at home in central midfield . |
| 23 | " You must go back , " he whispered at length , and they stood up and prepared to depart . |
| 24 | D then telephoned his brokers and bought 6000 shares in Thompson T-Line Plc , which , after Diamond 's announcement of the takeover , he sold at profit of £3,000 . |
| 25 | And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 26 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 27 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 28 | And the headmaster had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties . |
| 29 | Now , as he sits at home with his wife and children in their suburban house in Ealing , the revisionists are wandering the streets . |
| 30 | Now of course he sits at home and waits for the cheques ! |