Example sentences of "at [adj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at eleven he kneels on the carpet |
| 2 | At eight he began working part-time on a local farm , and three years later left school to go there full-time . |
| 3 | At 32 he headed Margaret Thatcher 's ideas-factory , the policy unit at Number Ten . |
| 4 | And at that he had gone out . |
| 5 | At that he laughed curtly . |
| 6 | He had a good laugh at that He thought it was a terminally good idea , terminally funny , He said there was no way Michael would do it ‘ Duty before nookie , ’ he said . |
| 7 | At that he turned his face round and glared at her . |
| 8 | At twenty-one he had married Elizabeth Egerton of Tatton and become the tenant of Sledmere for life . |
| 9 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 10 | At 53 he edged Waqar low to Inzamam at slip , and the Pakistanis were not easily persuaded that neither umpire could consider it a clean catch . |
| 11 | At 18.15 he deployed his port wing column , while his starboard wing , presently manoeuvring to the left , or port side , opened fire . |
| 12 | At another he speculates that none of them knew much about news or editing . |
| 13 | Why not have a go at this he says ! |
| 14 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 15 | At this he seemed to liven up , and went back to being Oliver . |
| 16 | At this he remarked , ‘ Yes , on a day like this it 's good to be alive . ’ |
| 17 | At this he leapt from his chair in one long gingery streak , seized the bag and without ceremony upended it . |
| 18 | Look at this he 's got the |
| 19 | At 26 he has already been at eight clubs , and if Howard Wilkinson could n't stop his itchy feet people will ask , what chance have we got ? |
| 20 | At thirteen he took a car and wrote it off . |
| 21 | At thirteen he went ( with , it seems , the entire youth of Manchester ) to see T. Rex at Belle Vue Kings Hall . |
| 22 | At thirteen he entered Clare Hall , Cambridge , where he was a brilliant and versatile pupil . |
| 23 | His success is such that at 45 he has a salary of nearly £1m a year . |
| 24 | In his subsequent 17 hours at large he had seized , with a 100-strong force , the central police headquarters . |
| 25 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |
| 26 | His father was wheelbarrowing , apparently in connection with this , and for six shifts or stems at 2/6 he earned 15/ less 6d. for the Mine Club . |
| 27 | At fifty-two he had long ago found his style , and was more than comfortable with it . |
| 28 | At one he slept , and at three he worked in a shed at the bottom of the garden . |
| 29 | At 17 he went to Cambridge on a scholarship to study maths in which he got a first-class degree three years later . |
| 30 | At seven-thirty he got out of the car with a flashlight and pushed through the undergrowth to a nearby stream . |