Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 2 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 3 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 4 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 5 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 6 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 7 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 8 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
| 9 | Some of them aid the deception by raising their tails and wagging them at the approaching attacker , while keeping the rest of the body still . |
| 10 | It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do . |
| 11 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
| 12 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 13 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 14 | I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's . |
| 15 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 16 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 17 | ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport . |
| 18 | In Chicago on June 17 she attacked those attempting " to create a new artificial state by taking powers away from national states and concentrating them at the centre " . |
| 19 | And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin . |
| 20 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 21 | She wrapped up warmly , winding a scarf round her neck , crossing it over her chest and pinning it at the back , as her mother had done in her childhood . |
| 22 | Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit . |
| 23 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 24 | I know that in Beirut I simply took my child through the checkpoints and delivered her at the school gates . |
| 25 | ‘ Naw , ’ he replied angrily , crumpling up the pools coupon and throwing it at the television set . |
| 26 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 27 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 28 | Rip it into tiny pieces and throw it at the bride and groom at the next wedding you see . |
| 29 | Now this er of course was railway waggons and er when you started work you was put with a skilled man and i er it was his job to repair the waggons and teach you at the same time . |
| 30 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |