Example sentences of "he [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He lived at a very difficult time ; they wanted him back at La Scala , but there was always the possibility that Toscanini would return . |
| 4 | 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 ! ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He argued at a Westminster press conference that in only 35 out of 403 local authority areas would any claimants gain or break even , despite Mrs Thatcher 's pledge in July 1987 that they would not be adversely affected . |
| 9 | He gazed at a glass block , soaring upwards , in whose mirror cliff-face swam the distorted white reflection of a Wren church spire . |
| 10 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 11 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He stopped at a small , quiet pub and bought a meal , then went on again . |
| 15 | Just then he stopped at a place where a dog had dug a hole in the ground . |
| 16 | His last call would be in Trinity Road , Hilderbridge , so he stopped at a confectioners and bought a box of fruit jellies . |
| 17 | He stopped at a gate , and in large red letters on the middle bar of the gate he painted some words from the Bible : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He sucked at a bottle of Guinness , and went on fingering the rounds . |
| 20 | ‘ Where 's Raimundo ? ’ he shouted at a wincing Umberto . |
| 21 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 22 | Well he played at a level , I mean er , I mean he but it 's played at a level where it 's loud enough er to have a good boogie on down |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He squinted at a car on the road as it hurried north . |
| 25 | He seemed at a loss for words , and Ward made no attempt to help him . |
| 26 | Penry made several attempts to break it , but gave up at last , his face like thunder as he drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death . |
| 27 | He claimed at a press conference that the plant 's management and government officials had deliberately played down the scale of the fire . |
| 28 | Unable to persuade other firms to commit to such a specific amount , he arrived at a compromise by forming the Per Cent Club , which has 120 corporate members giving not less than a half per cent of their annual UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 29 | He arrived at a decision , threw the cigarette away , and turned towards a small depressing row of agricultural cottages . |
| 30 | He arrived at a town surrounded by icebergs and with no road out . |