Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 2 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 3 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 4 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 5 | In this chapter we look at the general nature of weak syllables . |
| 6 | With the end of that accumulatory episode we arrive at the second resultant stratigraphical situation as suggested in " 7 " . |
| 7 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
| 8 | We brought the figure down having at le , and waited two years and that 's th , I think that proves the lad 's foundation to the argument of how desperate the fire service need , need this station and it has absolutely nothing to do with Dovelands school er er whatsoever as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm the spokesperson for public protection not education and that 's it and er I 'm surprised er er that I know erm er er that Mr is is a very , very good supporter of the er southern fire station and supported us in the er in the er question we asked at the last council er meeting and er I 'm surprised he has n't spoke or even Mr who er , who likes to s , who likes to speak in the chamber but I 've has n't supported the fire station . |
| 9 | All necessary and desirable directions for disposing of the proceedings should be given at the pre-trial review , and the parties should as far as practicable ask for all the directions they need at the pre-trial review , giving prior notice to all interested parties ( Ord 17 , rr 1 and 3 ) . |
| 10 | Is that the only child they have at the present time ? |
| 11 | When , six months later , the English Opera Group was looking for a boy soprano to play the Little Sweep in a new production of Let's Make an Opera — in which the young Michael Ingram had previously treated a Brixton audience to on-stage nudity — Benjamin Britten remembered Michael , not so much for his singing , but for the havoc he caused at the earlier auditions . |
| 12 | And every waking hour she chipped at the ugly block , sanded , scored , chiselled , gouged gaping eye sockets . |
| 13 | That handjob I scored at the Happy Isles-I tell you , She-She was giving it away . |
| 14 | We have the county council and the district councils telling us what a good job they do at the present time , spending a lot of money in doing it , we have provided this largely out of our own efforts , we 've got grants from er other bodies , I think it 's something that we should properly erm hallmark as an initiative of this parish council to celebrate one hundred years of parish government , and I would propose centenary field . |
| 15 | Linford Christie also runs his first major individual race of the summer in tonight 's Golden Gala and will be looking for the sort of confidence-booster he gained at the same meeting last year . |
| 16 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 17 | Two more birdies coming home compensated for the bogeys she had at the fourteenth and sixteenth holes . |
| 18 | The diagonal constructions employed in the paintings she selected at the National Gallery and their use as a formal agent aiding and abetting the organisation of colour is what Riley emphasises and announces in her own work of this period . |
| 19 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 20 | Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible . |
| 21 | We had received the full blast of his whimsicality the minute we arrived at the ancient wood-frame rectory , modernised in 1812 ( according to the brochure ) by the great-grandson of Sir Christopher Wren . |
| 22 | That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government . |
| 23 | " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them . |
| 24 | In October he flew at the first British flying meeting at Doncaster , and there he became a naturalized British subject . |
| 25 | If , for instance , he drops a ball it accelerates at the same rate as the capsule and will remain at rest relative to the capsule , whatever their shared acceleration . |
| 26 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 28 | At least , that 's the feeling I get at the best of my poetry-reading moments . |
| 29 | She drew a deep breath , and with her cheek pressed against his green woollen jersey she stared at the flightless bird searching for tasty morsels on the path ahead of them . |
| 30 | And contrast means you then compare th a compare means you look at the similar yeah it could be the similarities and differences , I quite like that . |