Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Everybody in Avonlea will laugh at me for putting medicine in a cake ! ’ |
2 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
3 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
4 | It is true that , characteristically , he was about to cadge a lift ; but lift or no lift , most elevated academics of those ( and these ) days when accosted by some unknown student would look at him as if he were something deposited on the pavement in contravention of the local by laws . |
5 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
6 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
7 | Thus were the Cornish giants vanquished and the pile of stones erected ‘ … that men might wonder at it for evermore ’ . |
8 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |