Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each goal is planned for a week but some may possibly require longer ; our dieter will have to take extra time if it is taking her body longer to adjust than she anticipates at the start . |
| 2 | She always felt unnerved when she researched at the august Victoria and Albert Museum and became only too conscious of her lack of formal training . |
| 3 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 4 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 5 | Instinctively she knew how to pleasure him in return , exalted when he moaned at the delicacy of her touch and begged for her to increase the pressure of her caresses , until they reached the point of no return together , their bodies joining in a union so satisfying , so complete that in that moment of culmination Gina no longer felt a separate entity . |
| 6 | The minor claim is simply that if you it 's an empirical claim it says if you look at the fossil record , and you look in detail at the changes in the fossils , what you observe is not continuous steady change , but you see what they call stasis — that is nothing much happening for long periods of time , perhaps for millions of years , and then rather suddenly changes taking place . |
| 7 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 8 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 9 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 10 | And when he gets it on , the , the C and D truck it sets off , what happens when he stops at the first set of traffic lights ? or turns out ? |
| 11 | The first thing I noticed as we arrived at the famous pot was a fixed caving rope leading down into the dark abyss , and I could n't resist scrambling across to peer in . |
| 12 | ‘ The problems came when I protested at the removing without consultation of Christmas bonus pay and the halving of overtime paid while accompanying residents on holidays . ’ |
| 13 | Erm but do n't forget to like if you look at the beginning , number one , you 've got ta make a big thing on planning the future |
| 14 | Now the odds on the tote , I mean if you looked at the , I did n't bet on the National , cos I did n't like the odds . |
| 15 | That 's right , and I think what has been shown if you look at the behaviour of organisations sometimes after a disaster erm those that think in that way actually create even more procedures . |
| 16 | I think you can see if you look at the er , er around the chamber at the amount of interest that this er has aroused and the , the header referred to the number of other petitions and er , er letters that have been received . |
| 17 | None of the four phones would ring if he remained at the desk all day . |
| 18 | If you play back a recording of the rehearsal , consider whether you spoke at the right pace , and particularly whether you made an impressive pause at the right moment . |
| 19 | And I could n't remember whether she said at the end of the three months or |
| 20 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 21 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 22 | Orrell are top of the first division … but then again there are n't many easy matches to be had when you look at the other ties |
| 23 | Which incidentally you can clean as they hang at the window . |
| 24 | An ambiguously worded provision , patently lacking adequate means of enforcement , may be too slender a ground on which to anticipate that the courts would sanction a derogation from the ownership rights of the shareholders , lying as they do at the foundation of the legal model of the company . |
| 25 | Lying as it does at the northern limit of the global thermohaline ‘ conveyor belt ’ , changes in this region may ultimately have global consequences . |
| 26 | He frowned as he stared at the brown water still gushing from the tap . |
| 27 | Once the President had retired to his quarters for the short flight , the DDI opened the envelope he 'd been handed when he arrived at the airport . |
| 28 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 29 | The king is shown as he appeared at the battle of San Martino , the basal frieze showing the entry into Milan of Piedmontian and French troops following the battle of Magenta . |
| 30 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |