Example sentences of "[verb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 32 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 33 | She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts . |
| 34 | I managed to film this without Mr Bolt Head noticing at our last meeting . |
| 35 | The carp feeding around the inlet nudged at his fingers . |
| 36 | ‘ What sort of group do we need at our school ? ’ |
| 37 | The handshake factor is important to us , and we have every support we could possibly need at our fingertips ’ , says |
| 38 | When the figure turns , say ‘ May peace be with you ’ , and request to hear who it is and why it is banging at your door . |
| 39 | You wo n't miss your paid-for breakfast between 8am and 9am , nor will you have the domestic staff banging at your door with a vacuum cleaner in tow . |
| 40 | On 18 November 1699 King William III dined at his house in Richmond and , on 23 June 1700 , in recognition of his services , the king knighted him at Hampton Court . |
| 41 | " I wo n't do it again , " he promised at his trial . |
| 42 | Neighbouring women rushed in to comfort her and mourn with her ; and Harry , fuming at her ingratitude and smarting from yet another snub , stamped back to this cottage , where he found Ann weeping bitterly , with Tristram at her breast . |
| 43 | Body Shop , the " green " cosmetics retail chain , is planning a wind farm to provide all its power needs at its Sussex headquarters . |
| 44 | But she terrified him , because he wanted her and he liked having that grave face near him , and she was willing to have him even with the ghosts crowding at his shoulder . |
| 45 | If not I 'll remain immobilized at my place , tied hand and foot … and in whose interest would that be ? |
| 46 | He put his spurs to his horse , the dachshunds yapping at his heels , and galloped into the trees . |
| 47 | Federman has explained this characteristic as ‘ imagination mocking what it pretends to be doing … imagination laughing at its own pretensions ’ ( Federman 1976a : 576 ) . |
| 48 | He picked up a kitten by its tail and swung it to and fro in the air , laughing at its cries . |
| 49 | The boys burst out laughing at her remark , then Yanto controlled himself and went on . |
| 50 | A worn-looking hooker is getting her face slashed in the local whorehouse for laughing at her cowboy customer 's ‘ teensy little pecker ’ . |
| 51 | Like laughing at her po-faced pronouncements on the ‘ artistry ’ of throw-away tunes such as , well , you name ‘ em , she 's got ‘ em . |
| 52 | It was like a smiling , mocking face , laughing at her useless attempts to raise her own passion . |
| 53 | Her mind vacillated between laughing at her fears and suspecting a terrible mystery . |
| 54 | Julia smiled at him and then looked across the round table at Anthony as though to persuade him to get Comfort to behave better , but either he misunderstood her signals or did not care enough , for he sat , watching his sister , laughing at her jokes and joining in her reminiscences . |
| 55 | The fire looked as if it was laughing at her troubles . |
| 56 | ‘ Relax , ’ he said , laughing at her expression . |
| 57 | But later that morning Luke was in one of the relaxed moods she was beginning to like so much , helping her move some recently purchased pots and tubs of plants about her balcony , asking questions , laughing at her description of her mongrel ancestry — Irish , Scottish , English , Portuguese and Italian , and intrigued to learn that she spoke Portuguese . |
| 58 | He was laughing at her inexperience , making her feel gauche and defenceless . |
| 59 | In the picture Stuart held , his father was grinning self-consciously in his formal dress , at least a head taller than his wife who hung on his arm , looking up and laughing at her husband . |
| 60 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |