Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | From then on he lived at Place , assisting his mother , who lived until 1842 , in running her property . |
| 5 | " You must go back , " he whispered at length , and they stood up and prepared to depart . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And the headmaster had a disconcerting habit of offering jobs to people he met at dinner parties . |
| 11 | His cramped room in the Decrucq house , that he shared at night with two small children , was no good for his art work . |
| 12 | The French finance minister , Mr Pierre Beregovoy , had sent a flutter of excitement through the international financial markets when he announced at mid-morning that all remaining exchange controls would be swept away . |
| 13 | ‘ Then why did you leave ? ’ he asked at length . |
| 14 | ‘ What is it ? ’ he asked at length . |
| 15 | And as he recovered at home , he opened up about the moment he thought his season was over . |
| 16 | And he lunged at Anwar with a carrot that was Lying to hand . |
| 17 | Er one of the members of staff of the Leiston Grammar School , a chap named Johnny erm , was in charge of his trainees and erm there again erm Arthur and our section became responsible for erm all this in-service training for er , er women mainly because the men of course had joined up and erm the used to come in quite often and er he got , used to get so upset because he could n't erm , he got at cross purposes with some of these ladies |
| 18 | Aung San may not have known which knife and fork to use when he dined at Government House but he had a sure grasp of the realities of power . |
| 19 | But I had learnt to understand how he felt from small things , mere comments he let slip , and from the tender power he demonstrated at night . |
| 20 | Felipe de Santis sat at the wheel , his eyes dark and irritated as he approached at speed over the rough ground . |
| 21 | And so he went the north end and got whatever it was he was wanting and on the way back he stopped at farm to watch . |
| 22 | He stopped at No 18 and tried the handle . |
| 23 | He was the youngest driver in the field , qualified on the fifth row and was up to sixth place with 10 laps to go as leading British driver in a British car when he crashed at Copse , escaping unhurt . |
| 24 | Ince had earlier aggravated the shoulder injury he sustained at Villa Park on Monday , but is expected to be fit to face West Ham at Old Trafford on Wednesday . |
| 25 | Bénezet let him go , and sat for some moments considering what he had heard , before he rose at leisure , and walked back thoughtfully to the guesthall . |
| 26 | There , he excelled at maths and won a scholarship to Cambridge in 1967 . |
| 27 | Woods was not only a successful cricketer ; he excelled at rugby football . |
| 28 | The Prince of Wales also cancelled plans to attend Royal Ascot to take the opportunity to recover from the back injury he aggravated at polo on Sunday . |
| 29 | He gossips about the weather and American football , recalls that he played at school and in the Army , and was a big follower of the game . |
| 30 | He came at dusk , as soon as he dared , when everyone was gone . |