Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 2 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 3 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 4 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 5 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 6 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 7 | Passers-by seized arthritic Frederick Cowen , 68 , as he hobbled from the Midland Bank with £1,500 he stole at the point of a fake gun made from a hosepipe . |
| 8 | MacArthur did not regard him as particularly able and remarked on the disappointment he felt at the failure of Japanese politics to produce outstanding personalities . |
| 9 | When an accomplished actor like ( bridegroom 's name ) realizes he is going to have a speaking part in the wedding ceremony he jumps at the opportunity . |
| 10 | I saw the monster arrive from the marsh he looked at the when I saw him I ran |
| 11 | With these words he ran at the Husayn twins and started to belabour them with his plastic sword . |
| 12 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 13 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 14 | Within 6 months he excels at the art . |
| 15 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |
| 16 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 17 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 18 | Clocaenog village he left at a distance on his left hand , and wound his way up into the hills again . |
| 19 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
| 20 | A STREET busker who told a jury he shared Madonna 's views on sex was convicted yesterday of raping a 19-year-old girl he seized at a bus stop . |
| 21 | His letter written to congratulate his elder brother Lodovico when his engagement was announced , is typical of the sermons he preached at the marriages of so many friends . |
| 22 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 23 | Martin Brundle will return to F1 next year as number one driver with Brabham , the team he left at the end of 1989 to join the Jaguar WSPC team . |
| 24 | For a moment he paused at the threshold , but then turned back inside , taking in the sight of an ivory chess set , a small telescope , a number of small fluted carvings , and the fine hangings adorning the wall , observing everything with a cocked head as if listening for something . |
| 25 | The mythic figure of the General — as portrayed in the War Memoirs — had known , from the moment he stood at the top of the Champs Elysées on 26 August 1944 , that the new leaders whom the war had brought to power would betray the cause of national renewal . |
| 26 | In a fit of feverish activity Gould proceeded to publish a series of lectures and papers as quickly as he could possibly produce them ; on 25 August he exhibited and named at the Zoological Society six new species of kangaroo and presented his information on the bowerbirds ; on 8 September he read a paper at a scientific meeting on the extraordinary brush turkey , or Alectura , among a selection of others ; on 13 October he gave an account of the Ocellated leipoa ; on 10 November he exhibited at the Society 50 of his new Australian birds , which he characterised in subsequent meetings ; and so on , until he had presented all his new trophies from both the bird and animal kingdoms to the awestruck Zoological members . |
| 27 | Because you see all that we 've heard is that gentlemen just before Mr he listened at the door before but of course the front door is nowhere near the master bedroom . |
| 28 | Linford Christie also runs his first major individual race of the summer in tonight 's Golden Gala and will be looking for the sort of confidence-booster he gained at the same meeting last year . |
| 29 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 30 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |