Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb base] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 2 | Her eyes deepen at the memory . |
| 3 | When Prince and his band played their after-hours show at the Camden Palace on Cat 's birthday , Prince gave her a cake with 26 candles on , with the message ‘ Happy Birthday Darling ’ in chocolate icing . |
| 4 | regular self-assessment , in the form of ‘ hard ’ or ‘ easy ’ faces which pupils circle at the end of each unit , to encourage children to start taking responsibility for their own learning |
| 5 | Society becomes more wholesome , more serene and spiritually healthier , if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their consciousness the knowledge that not only themselves , but all their fellows have access when ill , to the best that medical skill can provide . |
| 6 | They are the only members of the first-team squad whose contracts expire at the end of the season . |
| 7 | Monie , whose side sit at the top of Division One , revealed : ‘ We 've never been at the top so early . |
| 8 | Ah , the daiquiri bird which incubates its eggs on the wing ; ah , the fredonna tree whose roots grow at the tips of its branches , and whose fibres assist the hunchback to impregnate by telepathy the haughty wife of the hacienda owner ; ah , the opera house now overgrown by jungle . |
| 9 | He was sweating slightly , overheated from the bath , his shirt open at the neck . |
| 10 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 11 | His eyes sparkle at the prospect of retiring three years hence having established Ruby in particular as possibly a bigger money spinner even than Staley 's high fructose corn syrup . |
| 12 | He hopes to be fit to defend his Masters title at the end of next month and has begun light training . |
| 13 | In the Fiction , before he and his uncle arrive at the farm , Philip the narrator describes the image of Catherine that remained from the earlier encounter : |
| 14 | She shuddered , and ran like the wind down the stairs to escape , but as she reached the hall the door flew open and Penry burst into the house , his face alight at the sight of her . |
| 15 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 16 | Yeah you know what Cathy speak at the radio |
| 17 | The equivalent during reading is having our eyes arrive at the bottom of the page without the slightest understanding of what the author had intended . |
| 18 | Your eyes look at the instruments and the instruments tell you you 're fine , you 're flying level . |
| 19 | Of course , our bullets arrive at the detector one by one and each of them has traversed one or other slit . |
| 20 | And our parliamentary reporter Rae Stewart will be reporting on that Save Our Railways lobby at the Commons tomorrow . |