Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a late start because of the poor education he 'd received at the local Protestant school . |
| 2 | And Jim went out and got drunk in Invercargill with a man he 'd met at the last A&P show , Bill McKirdy , and he stayed with Bill that night to sleep it off . |
| 3 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |
| 4 | Having secured the tables and the glasses , he had peered at the dark discoloured oil of an elderly cleric in a shovel hat and opined that this was the work of ‘ our local genius ’ . |
| 5 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 6 | Minton would have been familiar with Buffet 's art , and that of other picasso-influenced French Realists , either through reproductions or from exhibitions he had seen at the Anglo-French Institute . |
| 7 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 8 | He had hinted at the possible withholding of US aid to Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | The judges decided 7-0 against Mr Santos on the grounds that the party he had joined at the last minute in order to stand , the little-known Brazilian Municipalist Party which was founded by Pentecostal preachers , had failed to register in time . |
| 10 | He had taken in the shelf full of Jacob 's own writings , he had paused at the artful photograph of a striking blonde woman who he had no doubt was Jardine 's wife . |
| 11 | Blood trickled down his calves where , while writing , he had clawed at the cracking patches on his legs . |
| 12 | He paused by the window seat , a replica of one he had noticed at the other end of the gallery . |
| 13 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 14 | He had arrived at the forward brigade post three hours earlier . |
| 15 | Presently he was there , he had arrived at the wooden planks and the criss-crossed supports of the bridge . |
| 16 | He had arrived at the precise moment when Elizabeth had begun to sob and then desolately to weep , and all Lydia 's skills , social , sexual and manipulative , had abruptly deserted her . |
| 17 | He had arrived at the precise moment when another twist in the plot of a murder weekend was unravelling itself . |
| 18 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 19 | At times rambling incoherently ( one observer in court thought him demented ) Mathews repeated all the lies he had told at the original trial and added several more . |
| 20 | On Oct. 13 , 1989 ( i.e. before the ousting of Zhivkov ) , the BCP newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo published the transcripts of letters sent to the Soviet leadership in the 1940s by Bulgaria 's first communist leader , Georgi Dimitrov , in which he had protested at the wrongful incarceration in the Soviet Union of Bulgarian communists during the Stalinist terror . |
| 21 | Indeed , the year before , he had spoken at the Moot of his hope , according to the minutes , " for occupation in some form of national service without that official status which might shut his mouth , and that he would be free to take part in any work for the future that was possible . |
| 22 | The rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of that value and the value of any previous chargeable transfers made by the beneficiary , but that value is to be reduced by the value of any other interest in possession in the property to which he becomes entitled at the same time or by the amount of any consideration in money or money 's worth which he has received in respect of the termination or disposal of the interest . |