Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children . |
| 2 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 3 | Devos might have added that Charpentier frequently reinforces his wishes at the ends of sections with verbal indications such as ‘ Passez sans interruption a la suite ’ ( ‘ Continue without interruption to the next movement ’ ) , or ‘ Suivez au Choeur sans interruption ’ ( ‘ Continue with the chorus without interruption ’ ) . |
| 4 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 5 | Bend your legs at the knees and swoop your arms down and behind your bottom , in one movement . |
| 6 | The launderers were at their evening meal — I could see their backs at the windows . |
| 7 | At a time of radical change in Hungary , Nick Dallman relives his experiences at the hands of the secret and often brutal state now being dismantled State of fear . |
| 8 | They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle , pointing their guns at the passengers . |
| 9 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 10 | There are already two vacancies on the Glenavon board with the former chairman and long-serving George Fleming losing their seats at the shareholders AGM last week . |
| 11 | The wind blew his words at the men and they stopped , glancing at each other . |
| 12 | Scales sat down , easing his trousers at the knees to avoid bagging . |
| 13 | Blackwell herself discussed her ideas at the Men and Women 's Club , a progressive middle-class coterie whose membership included Olive Schreiner and the social purist Maria Sharpe . |
| 14 | It was Pascoe 's turn to roll his eyes at the heavens . |
| 15 | He ran about the library shouting and shaking his fists at the shelves and the Headmaster had to send for Matron to calm him down . |
| 16 | From this side of the Atlantic we may raise our eyebrows at the opportunities for obstruction and procrastination and the constant search for the lowest common denominator , but arguably these are part of the price of freedom and democracy in the American context . |
| 17 | But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads . |
| 18 | Faint colour tinged her cheeks at the memories that stirred in her , and she said hoarsely , ‘ I do n't think I understand any of this . |
| 19 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 20 | His bare back began to look very red an d he kept waving his arms at the insects which he was disturbing . |
| 21 | Two men in their late teens or early twenties came into the office and pointed their guns at the cashiers face . |
| 22 | Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents . |
| 23 | And what Mr says in respect of er those three offences is that erm the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before , er he had never er known that that was a procedure that had to be followed . |