Example sentences of "he was at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he was at all well known abroad but in Austria he was famous for his wit . |
| 2 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 4 | He was at all times placid , unruffled , cool , calm and collected . |
| 5 | He was at all times happy , said his lordship , to give his assent to any measure that could relieve the unfortunate debtor without giving an opportunity to the adulterer , the swindler etc. to take advantage of the same law — . |
| 6 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Alexandra took her father over every inch of her domain and he nodded at her enthusiasm , but if he was at all impressed by what she did , what she planned , he gave no sign . |
| 9 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
| 10 | When I took him in he was at such a stage he had to go in in a wheelchair . |
| 11 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 12 | He was at that time receiving £210 , together with £20 for coal , £10 for cleaning , and £10 for gardening . |
| 13 | Held , dismissing both appeals , Findlay : ( 1 ) the judge had accepted the custody officer 's evidence that the notes in the pocket book were shown to Findlay , though he was at that time incommunicado ; and Code C 12.12 in its unamended form ( which governed this case ) only applied to interviews at police stations so that it did not require the notes in the present case to be shown to him : Brezeanu & Francis [ 1989 ] Crim.L.R. 650 . |
| 14 | By his order dated 12 May 1992 Waite J. directed that in the interim pending a further hearing in the events that ( 1 ) J. 's medical condition changed so that his life was threatened but was capable of being prolonged by intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( 2 ) he was at that time in the health authority 's care and ( 3 ) the required drugs and equipment were or could reasonably be made available , the health authority were to cause such measures , including artificial ventilation , to be applied to J. for so long as they were capable of prolonging his life . |
| 15 | He was at that hero-worshipping age . |
| 16 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 17 | It was just the way he was at that particular time . |
| 18 | Having followed P C and P C as he was at that time through the door , I went immediately to the bedroom on the right hand side , the second bedroom . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 21 | This presupposes that a person ( a ) is now conscious of the self he is now ; ( b ) is now conscious of the self he was at some time in the past ; and ( c ) can discern the identity of the self he is now and the self he was at some time in the past . |
| 22 | According to Adam , he was at some time expelled from Denmark by King Eric of Sweden , unsuccessfully sought help in Norway and England , and was eventually welcomed by a rex Scothorum , with whom he lived in exile for fourteen years until Eric 's death . |
| 23 | He was at this time an exponent of the benefits of Anglo-French peace and in the Philobiblon , attributed to him and written in 1344–5 , one chapter was entitled ‘ the Complaint of Books against Wars ’ . |
| 24 | He was at this stage in his life too disinclined to indulge in retrospection and perhaps too self-absorbed to consider his mother 's life and death in the context of his own life . |
| 25 | Sir Michael Clapham himself retired as Chairman at the end of 1977 having served on the Council from its beginning in 1964 ( and he was at this point the only remaining member from the original Council ) , and been its Chairman for seven years . |
| 26 | There is no means of knowing how near to the regularised life of Thurgarton he was at this date . |
| 27 | He was at this time already suffering from an ailment from which he and his friends would suffer until the end of his life — piles . |
| 28 | He was at this time , a terrible gossip . |
| 29 | Four moves later he was at another semi-resting place . |