Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawings he made at various ports of call provide the main burden of this show arranged by the Goethe-Institut . |
| 2 | He lived at nearby Whaddon Hall , also built in his beloved Gothic style . |
| 3 | A former goalkeeper on the books of Huddersfield Town and Halifax Town , he refereed at local level until just before Christmas and was also an active umpire . |
| 4 | With unseeing eyes he gazed at usual offices , charming patios , ‘ Ideal ’ boilers , and mature fruit-trees . |
| 5 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 6 | He was about to catch a taxi home from Swindon town centre at just after midnight , when he stopped at public toilets . |
| 7 | He excelled at grumpy anti-social males , harassed mothers , and their stony-faced domestic servants . |
| 8 | Ordering a staff car , he drove at top speed through the night to Paris . |
| 9 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 10 | Police cars and the police helicopter later trailed the man 's getaway car as he drove at high speed down the M6 and M56 . |
| 11 | Erdogan Kizilkaya claims that when he arrived at Kayseri Police Headquarters he was stripped and taken to an interrogation room where electric shocks were applied to his penis , hands and feet . |
| 12 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 13 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 14 | When he arrived at head quarters he discovered that he had , by mistake , been given a ‘ slave ’ disc — one with copyguards built in . |
| 15 | Boro will win automatic promotion if they beat Grimsby and Wolves , a situation Lawrence would have settled for when he arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 16 | The speech he delivered at Labour Party 's headquarters in Walworth Road , at the moment he had confidently expected to be entering Downing St in triumph , was the most moving I have heard from any British politician since Churchill . |
| 17 | Writing of what he knew at first-hand , Marryat could be allusive in a way which later writers could not emulate . |
| 18 | He explains that an Englishman he knew at Czech radio used always to get the usual toast na zdrave ( health ) wrong , confusing it with nadraži , meaning ‘ railway station ’ . |
| 19 | He looked at young John , now white and shaken with the shock . |
| 20 | He looked at Sabine , his face serious , his eyes almost pleading . |
| 21 | He looked at old Cohen . |
| 22 | Anton , his rolling bobbing head , in and out : and his mouth was ghastly , streaming blood and he bit at random , where he could : a cannibal feast , and there seemed no end to Parker , elephant big , but soft and white and easy to bleed , full of smells ; he could , heightened senses , whiff the slightest reek , the ebb and flow , as might a jackal , the strength drawn out of Parker . |
| 23 | ‘ Shall we move over there ? ’ suggested Greg , nodding to a vacant corner and hoping his intentions were not mistaken : he aimed at cosy conversation rather than anything intimate . |
| 24 | Similarly , he performed at various locations in the States , reading his poetry to the accompaniment of Maury Kay , a well known jazz musician of the time . |
| 25 | He sneered at over-specialised education . |
| 26 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |
| 27 | Pearce could have done with more than the seven years he had at British Aerospace to achieve the kind of management culture he would have liked to have bequeathed to the company . |
| 28 | He made his way back to his native area around Sorn , Muirkirk and Mauchline , where he slept at various farms , including Garfield , Meadowhead and Priesthill . |
| 29 | This case involved the 74-year-old ‘ soccer superfan ’ known for the Union Jack waistcoat and John Bull costume he sported at international matches . |
| 30 | ‘ The working class is about to blow , ’ he said at other times . |