Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 2 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 3 | I expect I woke up at the wrong time . |
| 4 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 5 | How d' ya get on at the dentist ? |
| 6 | When Nell did n't reply , he turned to see if she had heard him ; found her staring fixedly at the sign . |
| 7 | I expect he jumped out at the last minute . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , ’ said David , ‘ to find it turn right at the Seychelles ’ . |
| 9 | Remember Ah asked ye to go slowly at the start ? |
| 10 | ‘ Did you honestly expect me to stay home at the barn and carry on as if nothing had happened after you threw all those accusations at me ? |
| 11 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 12 | But let us look again at the quirky , fortuitous way in which evolution favours particular phenotypes . |
| 13 | Let us look again at the sentence that was cited earlier : |
| 14 | Let us look further at the role of tone-unit boundaries , and the link between the tone-unit and units of grammar . |
| 15 | Let us look now at the number of designers due for retirement between 1982–1992 ( see figure 9 ) . |
| 16 | Let us look then at the propositions which earned these encomia . |
| 17 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 18 | Well , when I say less strenuous , I mean you leap in at the level that suits . |
| 19 | " You did n't mind me looking in at the window , Stephen ? |
| 20 | He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll bet she 'd like him to end up at the foot of the cliff , ’ said a voice . |
| 22 | He turned to look at her , his glance intended to skewer her to the spot , forcing her to clutch self-consciously at the kimono she had slipped on while she had a nap after the arduous car journey into the mountains with Peter just now . |
| 23 | They heard him battering furiously at the panels and shouting hoarsely : ‘ What do you want with him ? |
| 24 | I know it does n't at the moment but you know what I mean . |
| 25 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 26 | James watched me prodding away at the knitting for a while , and I sensed his helplessness . |
| 27 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't like the term price war because that implies that these holidays are the type of bargain basement deal you pick up at the last minute . |
| 29 | Set all alarm clocks in the house to ensure you get up at the right hour , or if you 're in a guest house , ask for a breakfast call , nice and early . |
| 30 | Mr Trippier , who was said to be expressing the views of his constituents , wrote to Mr Kenneth Clarke on November 24 asking him to look again at the original 6.5 per cent pay offer , saying it was not fair . |