Example sentences of "he [vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had very strong associated reactions in the arm whenever he moved at all . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he winced at that , and she thought , this has nothing to do with ego , and continued , ‘ I 'm thinking that really the big difference is that it must make it more difficult to handle things . |
| 6 | And in that moment , as he winced at this new casualty , he lost the advantage that the suddenness of his irruption into the gun chamber had given him . |
| 7 | He stopped at this thought , wondering if dogs came along here frequently . |
| 8 | Actually , I think he did quite a lot for gay understanding , to not wrap up those characters he played at all . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 11 | If he came at all . |
| 12 | And he came at half past seven and he cleaned it and he looked at it , and he said er it was n't anything that he could see , he thinks it was just down draught , but we 've had winds before . |
| 13 | He has never forgotten the lessons he learnt at that time . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
| 16 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | He arrived at this destination at the early age of 35 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He frowned at that last . |
| 24 | He frowned at this suspected future injustice , but the next moment he remembered the siege and the fact that there was every chance that he would not live to suffer the humiliations of old age , and his thoughts promptly took a different line : " After so many hardships , how sad to be deprived of the tranquil evening of one 's life ! " |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | He blanched at that , but it was n't the insurance premiums he was worried about . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He took their biggest manual model , and he tipped at both ends , the ideal customer . |
| 29 | He glanced at all the bits of paper hanging higgledy-piggledy on the furniture and walls . |
| 30 | He glanced at both men . |