Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In company where he felt at ease , able to be himself , with Paul Alexandre , Anna Akhmatova , Lunia Czechowska , Modigliani still behaved like the well-bred and courteous young man who had first charmed Paris . |
| 2 | He lives — with Judy , his wife of 24 years — in Ealing , West London , where he drinks at the cricket club and , along with the Kinnocks , is one of the local celebrities . |
| 3 | His mouth was open and drooling and his tongue lolling between his lips and his eyes staring as if he did n't see her and everything about him red , and his hands bruised her skin where he tugged at her to move her where he wanted her , and he was making awful noises and pushing at her and pushing at her without the slightest gentleness almost as if he did n't realise it was her . |
| 4 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 5 | The day after that , Tobie was commanded to the Palace and returning , seized Loppe by the arm and marched him into the workroom John le Grant had devised for himself , where he scowled at them both . |
| 6 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An ill man , he returned to his brother James 's farm , where he died at the early age of forty-seven , 19 October 1799 . |
| 9 | He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 . |
| 10 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 11 | A report on ( Hekmatyar 's ) Radio Message of Freedom on Sept. 24 said that former President Najibullah had been moved from the UN offices in Kabul ( where he fled at the outset of the fall of his regime ) to Mazar-i-Sharif " where he now lives under the intimidation and torture of leaders of the unholy coalition of the north " . |
| 12 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 13 | As captain , he did not agree with the committee over the composition of the team to meet the Australians , and in the end he left England to settle in South Australia , where he coached at St Peter 's College , Adelaide . |
| 14 | He left the car body repair factory where he worked at Frampton on Severn at around 1:30 . |
| 15 | The Syrians performed the task swiftly , and Aoun was forced to take refuge in the French embassy , where he remained at the end of the year . |
| 16 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 17 | He did really well as a novice a year ago in some top class races in Ireland and , although he fell at the seventh in last year 's Gold Cup , he should be a more mature horse and a better jumper this season . |
| 18 | Agrippa , although he objected at first , reluctantly consented to write out the warrants and disburse the necessary silver for our journeys . |
| 19 | He was called to give evidence at this morning 's hearing , but , although he appeared at the witness stand he exercised his right to remain silent . |
| 20 | In front of it was the kitchen garden , which was the only part of the grounds to be kept in order , for Adam Diggory , although he grumbled at the necessity , was obliged to tend it as it provided most of the vegetable produce for the household table . |
| 21 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 22 | The railways undercut his price and he was forced to find many more passengers than he had at first calculated . |
| 23 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 24 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 25 | Cowslip showed no more concern at Fiver 's tense manner than he had at anything that had gone before . |
| 26 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 27 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 28 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 29 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 30 | Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared . |