Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb base] at the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint . |
| 2 | Bored gauchos sit out of the wind , sucking yerba maté from gourds ; their horses munch at the thin grass in a desultory fashion . |
| 3 | In Hemingway 's famous expression , what teachers need at the present time is ‘ grace under pressure ’ , and my intention is that the discussions in this book should be very practical aids to the development of this valuable commodity . |
| 4 | The trolled and gargoyled buttresses wheel around you through rifts in the cloud ; they stretch , soar , disappear , solidify again suddenly out of the vapour then drift impossibly far up into the mist until your senses reel at the evanescent dynamism of the scene . |
| 5 | Your hands clutch at the gaping wound as you try to stop your entrails spilling into the slime of the sewer . ’ |