Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . "
2 For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 .
3 Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal .
4 He lived at the settlement for helping London boys , Cambridge House .
5 Sir James Reckitt did some amateur excavating when he lived at the manor and some stones , which could have formed church windows , can still be seen in the gardens of houses since built on the site .
6 He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ?
7 On 7 March he entertained at the hotel — the bill No. 216 amounting to £16.50 was posted to his account .
8 I should like to think that the Colonel 's sister-in-law ( the daughter of a dean ) to whom he gave dinner at the Café Royal , the Aunt whom he entertained at the Walsingham , and the Uncle whom he nicknamed the Nabob , were really his relations and not figments of his humorous imagination .
9 Then , on the death of his father in 1737 , he succeeded at the age of twenty-one to the Radway estate , which the latter had bought in 1712 , and to the life of a cultured country gentleman .
10 This meant that some of his own sons were already adult when he succeeded at the age of 35 : his eldest son Lothar was nearly 20 — old enough to provide an alternative focus of loyalty for aspiring nobles .
11 He stabbed at the paper with his knife until he 'd cut a hole big enough , and pulled one of them out .
12 He beamed at the others .
13 ‘ Cos I know a lot about fish.in He beamed at the crowd around us , then turned to the tank once more .
14 But he relented at the sight of Isabelle smiling and bearing gifts , his Continental dream .
15 Tommy Cooper talking at length about when he ruled at the Den and we 'll be talking to about his Norwegian career and his arrival at the City ground .
16 He winked at the Duke and called across to him , ‘ What a grand thing , your Honour , to have a wedding without a minister ! ’
17 He winked at the wizard .
18 He winked at the boy .
19 The Milan court held Mr de Benedetti had profited unfairly by receiving a £20m share package in an Ambrosiano subsidiary , as well as the 2 p.c. share value in the bank which he sold at the end of his tenure .
20 He 's a former patient of the Wolfeson , and is cared for by his wife , a nurse who he met at the centre .
21 The Profitboss , in developing his contacts , never forgets that the friendly Steven Cook he met at the conference last month might just be the head of purchasing for a major customer in two years ' time .
22 But inspiration came in the form of a fellow photographer he met at the printers , who suggested a different way of looking at the images .
23 They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known .
24 It was around this time that Seth began a new romance , with Susan Schilling , a preacher 's daughter he met at the dentist 's .
25 ‘ We told him it was a holiday in case he blabbed at the border , ’ his parents explained .
26 Commissioned in the 4th Regiment of Foot , he fought at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and then served in the Netherlands , where he may have gained experience of hydraulic engineering .
27 He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ .
28 This routine had been established for more than a year , so it was no surprise when one Sunday evening in early November , he announced at the supper table , ‘ Me and Maisie 's set a date .
29 Great therefore was my respect for our swift and silent counter of books and boxes when he announced at the end of his calculations , made just before the sale : ‘ You have about 4,000 more books this year . ’
30 The manuscript of Taskopruzade omits the as , in effect , does Sa'deddin , who generally follows Taskopruzade very closely , the result of which omission is to say simply that he became at the Darulhadis. el-Kefevi 's text of Taskopruzade clearly included the however , since he states unequivocally that Molla Arab became Hizir Bey 's muid at the Darulhadis ; and there is thus a good case that , despite the doubts introduced by the manuscript of Taskopruzade and Sa'deddin , Taskopruzade intended the lahu .
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