Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he was at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was possible that recovery might be organised , and for that reason he would remain where he was at least until morning . |
| 2 | His dad was Mickey who keeps goal for Colchester United , I do n't know if he was at the match , but he was , er had a very good game . |
| 3 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 4 | If you rule this second topic out of order , and the examiner wished it to be included , the examiner will at least see that you have had the point present in your mind , and will probably-also be brought to see that he was at fault in his wording of the question . |
| 5 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 6 | They had enquired if he was at the pottery and been told that he was not . |
| 7 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 8 | She could see that he was at a loss for words — which was reason enough for her to be pleased with her impetuous decision . |
| 9 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 10 | The seeds of a dramatic career were first sown while he was at the University of Indiana studying music . |
| 11 | " What happened while he was at the Lab had a hell of a lot to do with you . |
| 12 | She also agreed to tell him each evening about the sort of day she had had while he was at work . |
| 13 | John was an only child whose mother had died when he was at the difficult and demanding age of toddlerhood . |
| 14 | And when Rodriguez did not answer him he said very quietly , ‘ Was it because of anything that happened when he was at the Escuela Mecánica de la Armada ? ’ |
| 15 | No application was made for bail after the court heard that he was at risk to himself and others due to the nature of the crime . |
| 16 | This is a split that can rarely have been witnessed in Glasgow — which does not indicate that he was at fault in consulting his analyst , but does indicate that these autobiographies are sited in very different places . |
| 17 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 18 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 19 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 20 | He had three functions in which he knew that he was at home . |
| 21 | Thus Tony put in more 1st Division appearances for the Palace between 1969 and 1973 than anyone except John Jackson and Mel Blyth , but many Palace fans thought that he was at his best at left-back . |
| 22 | For Martin 's goblin never let him rest unless he was at work fetching honey , or setting up more hives , or buying and selling , making himself richer and richer . |
| 23 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 24 | However , reading his piece ( Market Place , July 112 ) I wonder if he was at the same Royal Show as I was . |
| 25 | Before the year was out my father had invested his small gratuity , his savings — for my mother had worked while he was at war — and opened a shop near the Market Place , specialising in selling components for those who wanted to build their own sets . |
| 26 | Mr Scott 's removal from office was demanded by one shareholder who said that he was at the helm when the company 's finances went in to the red . |
| 27 | She let him pass her , fifty yards to the east ; the temptation to shout was wrong but she waited until he was at the hedge . |
| 28 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 29 | He had been quite good at drawing when he was at school . |
| 30 | He joined his own , but I mean when he was at college . |