Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , 'e become top scorer o' centuries when 'e was 42 and went on to 197 of 'em before 'e retired at 51 . |
| 2 | His more general position is perhaps best summed up by an extract from the speech he made at 3.10 in the morning of 20 May 1992 during the Second Reading of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill . |
| 3 | He had two substantial houses ( in London he lived at 27 Queen 's Gate until 1913 , when he bought 93 Eaton Square , a still larger house with — an uncharacteristic touch for Baldwin — a more fashionable address ) and plenty of money with which to run them and do anything else he wanted . |
| 4 | He dined at three and fished with Burkett and his daughter until the evening light finally wilted , not to darkness , it was too northerly for that , but to that active dusk in which motes of light seemed pleased to elude the half-hearted grapplings of black night . |
| 5 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 6 | I suppose if he jibbed at five hundred he 'd hardly part with four thousand , not at a rate of interest we could afford . |
| 7 | ‘ Twice a week throughout more than one winter , he rose at five in the morning , and having saddled his pony himself , left the Abbey punctually as the clock struck six in order to attend Dr. Witt 's clinical lecture at seven , in the Bedford Infirmary ’ . |
| 8 | Generally he rose at five-thirty , before she was awake . |
| 9 | He came at eleven o'clock , which seemed to Lydia a reasonable hour , an indication of natural good manners . |
| 10 | He woke at three with a recurrence of the old nightmare-drowning and helpless in a deluge of glutinous liquid in which paradoxically there was also a ball of fire . |
| 11 | It was in the summer of 1932 that Duke paddled out alone into the biggest swell he had seen in his life , with a stiff offshore from the Koolau mountains pinning back the peaks , which he estimated at thirty feet , as big as the storm waves off Kaena Point . |
| 12 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 13 | With a somewhat carefree use of statistics he claimed at one National Council meeting in 1897 that the delegates represented 70,000,000 Nonconformists , on the assumption that they represented all non-Anglican and non-Roman Catholic Christians in the English-speaking world . |
| 14 | He arrived at four , apparently . |
| 15 | After leaving the church Dalgliesh went briefly back to the Yard to pick up his files on Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers and it was after midday before he arrived at 62 Campden Hill Square . |
| 16 | He arrived at three o'clock , and by 3.20 Dennis was in Mr Chapman 's motor car en route to the home of the League Champions . ’ |
| 17 | He arrived at 3 a.m . |
| 18 | He 's disappointed the firm he joined at 13 have tarnished the start of his retirement . |
| 19 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 20 | There was a young woman there , an attractive girl he guessed at twenty-two , who had been introduced to him as Suzanne Simonis . |
| 21 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 22 | When he returned at 8.45 p.m. , he was said to have been ‘ accompanied by a member of the Board , Detective Wells , five constables , four men and two medical men ’ . |
| 23 | He returned at 11.30 , and deposited his children with Jane Holt . |
| 24 | He scratched at one rugby-shirt shrouded armpit , then nodded . |
| 25 | Indeed , as he shut the car door , he brushed at one sleeve as if to remove wrinkles as well as fluff . |
| 26 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | On leaving school , between 1912 and 1914 he taught at three schools , the last of them Northcliffe House School , Bognor . |
| 28 | At least he finished at twelve . |
| 29 | For a few months in the summer of 1939 he worked at 2 Caxton Street , Westminster , alongside L. D. Grand , a Woolwich contemporary who ran the then inadmissible section D of the secret service . |
| 30 | He started at 9.15 , finished just before 12 and when you think how much that time is worth , it says a lot . ’ |