Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nipples do n't twinkle — you must have fallen asleep looking at the fairy lights on the Christmas tree , ’ she scoffed . |
| 2 | You obviously have to work it out in some way , but you seem able to arrive at the answer almost instantly . |
| 3 | That is the basis of the famous " niche " strategy which means that you secure for yourself a useful market by doing something which the big boys find uneconomical to do at the price you can manage . |
| 4 | Some economists feel deep disquiet at the use of food grains to produce motor spirit . |
| 5 | The whole of Britain … seems to have caught it … the symptoms … you hear a racing car at full throttle in the ears … you go misty eyed at the sight of union jacks waving in the wind and then you start talking … rambling about red five … its a new disease … they 're calling it Mansell Mania … |
| 6 | To the North American , his South American counterpart comes too close for comfort whereas the South American feels uneasy conversing at the distance his partner demands . |
| 7 | Martha felt ready to weep at the unfairness of it . |
| 8 | If anything happened to the computer and it proved impossible to get at the data inside , you could go to your back-up diskettes and simply copy the data back into the computer when it had been repaired , or replaced , or put it onto another computer . |
| 9 | He was sitting still looking at the book with an Art-Is Wonderful air about him ( for my benefit , not because he believes it , of course ) . |
| 10 | She stood rooted staring at the woman . |
| 11 | A long arm , seeming likely to snap at the wrist from the excessive weight of a diamond bracelet , was raised in what she thought might be a greeting , but ended in a gesture to brush a wisp of free-flowing grey hair from in front of the Baronessa 's eyes . |