Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was leaving behind the other children , the only friends he had , and he realized at that moment how lonely he was in the world . |
| 2 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 3 | He stopped at this thought , wondering if dogs came along here frequently . |
| 4 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 5 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 6 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
| 7 | However , Nietzsche 's first editors ( 1895 ) , then his sister ( 1897 ) , and subsequently the world at large have asserted that the scale of this last revision was substantial and , specifically-that of the book 's eventual twenty-five sections , he added at this time the final six ( 20–25 ) , which are partly ( though not , as is often said , largely ) concerned with Wagner . " |
| 8 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
| 9 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 10 | for not only was the Earl Patrick suspicious of anyone coming from the regency , but he happened at this juncture to be consoling himself with a local lady , in the absence of marital comforts . |
| 11 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 12 | He did not explain how he arrived at that figure , but it turns out — conveniently — to be £93 less than the £420 student loan that the Government are now making available . |
| 13 | He arrived at these numbers by comparing reported AIDS cases in homosexual/bisexual males for the UK in 1986 and 1987 ( 785 ) with reports for 1988 and 1989 ( 1268 ) and for 1990 and 1991 ( 1907 ) . |
| 14 | He arrived at this destination at the early age of 35 . |
| 15 | She could sense how his body moved towards her subtly ; how , with the utmost casualness , he strove at each moment to include her in all that was said . |
| 16 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the case breaks new ground , that he acted at all times on legal advice and that wise counsel should permit the case to go before the House of Lords rather than rush to judgment now ? |
| 17 | And yet the mundane circumference beyond which he stepped at such times was also necessary to him : it was the circle in which he could stand and be safe . |
| 18 | He took their biggest manual model , and he tipped at both ends , the ideal customer . |
| 19 | He glanced at both men . |
| 20 | He glanced at another sheaf of papers . |
| 21 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 22 | Now he called at this house and said that he was er visiting for |
| 23 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 24 | He decided at that moment to make a victim of her . |
| 25 | ‘ I had thought so but recently he hinted at another asset he hoped to dispose of that would bring in quite a lot of money . |
| 26 | In the manifesto which Edward published in August 1337 , however , he hinted at another issue . |
| 27 | When Queen Elizabeth , on a state visit to Germany in May 1965 , arrived in Stuttgart for a formal lunch , John took care over his clothes but either forgot or did not think it necessary to find a pair of socks less obtrusive than the bright reds or blues he favoured at that time . |
| 28 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 29 | Strangely , he knew at this moment that he 'd miss this house as much as his mother would . |
| 30 | But it was Emlyn Williams he conquered at that stage and Emlyn Williams mattered . |