Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling .
2 ‘ I could n't eat or drink at the moment .
3 The task does not require detailed syntactic processing , simply to know where to pause ( the major syntactic boundaries ) , which words to stress ( distinguishing content and function words ) and whether the sentence requires the pitch to fall or rise at the end ( is it a yes-no question ? ) .
4 I will not act or suffer at the sword 's edge — Not that — I will not bleed — my dear , do you remember ? "
5 The use of a picture taken inside the Ministry of Sound club in our article on the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine ( April 3 ) was intended merely to show young people in a club and was not intended to suggest that drugs are permitted or used at the Ministry of Sound .
6 six days a week … from dawn till dusk … from gallop to grandstand … fortunes may be won or lost at the betting shops or with the bookies … but for the stables … for the lads and lasses and trainers its a hard grind …
7 A balance sheet ( an example of which is shown in Fig. 2.2 ) , or statement of financial position , shows the assets owned or controlled at the date of the balance sheet and how they are financed .
8 Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo .
9 There are landmarks and turning points in the movement 's evolution but few paintings that demand to be considered or discussed at the expense of others .
10 He found that gazing at the CO 's moustache helped .
11 He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them .
12 A young man with a bad case of acne approached and pointed at the phone .
13 So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers .
14 The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture .
15 However , Baillie Cochrane explained that Scott 's first scheme had reception rooms ‘ on a magnificent scale ’ , but on the recommendation of the Select Committee they were omitted and reintroduced at the suggestion of Foreign Office officials as normal rooms which could be used for special occasions .
16 ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled .
17 the vicar used to come and sit at the back and , you know , they used to do a little turn , you know play in the bands
18 wanted that old , is it , the rag and bone people , you know , rubbish , and er I suppose somebody taught him and er he , he played in that and er you know did the little towns and the vic the vicar used to come and sit at the back , a seat under against , under the window and watch , perhaps he thought he 'd er get some little co
19 ‘ I 'm going to come and work at the school , ’ said Maisie .
20 It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it .
21 They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by .
22 The fear of future unemployment , he believed , was exaggerated and existed at the moment " as a heavy legacy of dictatorship " .
23 Some evening she and Andrew would separate on the halfway landing and go up by different flights to meet and kiss at the top .
24 But her weeping window sill sheds tears of condensation , scarring the wall down to the carpet which has curled and crumbled at the edge .
25 John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women .
26 Ken Turk , the 67-year-old president and long time player for Hampshire club Hartley Wintney , collapsed and died at the wicket immediately after hitting a six against Shepherd 's Bush on May 3 .
27 A sixteen year old girl collapsed and died at the Hacienda in Manchester after ‘ dropping an E ’ .
28 Despite rough edges , it seems to have everything in it that Solaris 2.1 has and performs at the Sparcstation 2 level .
29 Bobbing and bobbing at the well-wall
30 They could hear Oliver banging and kicking at the cellar door .
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