Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he avoided borrowing at penal rates of interest . |
| 2 | Festival spokesman Joe Leddin said : ‘ The Japanese man was born in 1903 and intends to play , as he has done at previous festivals . |
| 3 | Laing feels strongly that the chief executive of a company should define , as he has done at United Biscuits , exactly what its responsibilities to the community are . |
| 4 | He has looked at marginal rates in some cases , but not in others . |
| 5 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 6 | His journals , which he has published at regular intervals ( the fourteenth volume appeared recently in France ) bear witness to the enormous interest he takes in everything that happens in the world outside him , and to a human being scornful of bourgeois conformity , almost an anarchist , and a convinced pacifist . |
| 7 | Corratts when he came to look at black lead mine at Conistone 2s. 6d . " |
| 8 | He wishes to inspect at close quarters all the actors in this drama . |
| 9 | Under Section 37 of Britain 's Mental Health Act , he would have been legally a free man if he had remained at large for another hour . |
| 10 | He had been detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act , and the order would have lapsed if he had remained at large for 28 days , unless there was fresh evidence of mental illness . |
| 11 | How could she accuse the traditional education he had received at Welsh hands , when she herself was not entirely innocent ? |
| 12 | The man had been found near Southwark Bridge at the turn of the tide : he had grounded at low tide , and it had been assumed that he had been carried down river with the ebb . |
| 13 | Of his ex-wife Freddie heard nothing at all , until , in the early summer of 1948 , he encountered a captain , younger than himself , whom he had known at Southern Command and who had relatives living in Scotland . |
| 14 | She remembered how he had looked at her-awed , his eyes round in his face — and laughed , imagining it . |