Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The misinformation concerns only the route Déj ‘ a Vu and has nothing at all to do with Prodigal Sons . |
| 2 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 3 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 4 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 5 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 6 | Policies such as these penalise those who drink sensibly , are detrimental to the drinks industry and do nothing at all to deter those who are determined to abuse alcohol . |
| 7 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 8 | But the , you know it 's two o'clock in the morning and police car 's coming through the village and see someone at that time , they 're quite likely to stop and ask them what they 're doing . |
| 9 | It is possible to make a break-through and find what at first appeared to be a problem turns into a sensible and satisfactory arrangement . |
| 10 | This suggestion , that stylistics should characterize comparatively the language or style of texts and leave it at that , would seem to constitute a sort of minimal claim for the relevance of linguistics to the study of literature . |
| 11 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 12 | But as more unwanted probings prodded , she was set to seriously wonder if indeed it was good enough to have called at Vendelin Gajdusek 's home and left it at that . |
| 13 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 14 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |
| 15 | It was all she had left now , so she had thanked her sister and left it at that . |
| 16 | As he dumped his case in the pleasant bedroom , lifted the lid and left it at that , he reflected . |
| 17 | The processes that generate patterns during development are almost certainly more complex than Zhabotinsky 's reaction , or the process imagined by Turing , or the generation of a gradient by synthesizing a substance at one point and destroying it at another . |
| 18 | Did he write col basso in the score and leave it at that ? |
| 19 | Interesting facts culled from a meeting with the leading lights of both Aldus and Adobe at last year 's Appleworld show indicate that the main problem with PostScript on the Macintosh is the QuickDraw to PostScript conversion process and has nothing at all to do with the LaserWriter or PostScript . |
| 20 | ‘ For what we are about to receive , ’ said Uncle Philip and left it at that . |
| 21 | You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself . |
| 22 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 23 | Then , using an average stiffness frame and stringing it at two different tensions , 44lbs and 66 lbs respectively , the result was a massive 350cm ( over 11 feet ) difference in the length of the shot . |
| 24 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 25 | He is a keen observer of political life and quizzed me at great length about the impending British general election . |
| 26 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 27 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 28 | The increase in local stress , which can be calculated , depends solely upon the shape of the hole and has nothing at all to do with its size . |
| 29 | Anyway , Michael said that if he had one he 'd settle for peeling off the Carlsson stickers and the other red flashes down the sides and leave it at that . |
| 30 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |