Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , Falstaff himself that lies at the heart of the opera and Colin Rees proved a master of the role . |
| 2 | Friar Tuck stirred himself and stared at the Trapper . |
| 3 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 4 | Come down with me and dance at the Casablanca Club . |
| 5 | If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes . |
| 6 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
| 7 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 8 | Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately . |
| 9 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 10 | To design a means of navigating effectively amongst thousands of images , video sequences , sound , text and numerics , all seamlessly combined as a single information resource , is a challenging problem and one that lies at the heart of successful multimedia applications . |
| 11 | If you must use a painting program then it is essential to use one that works at the resolution of the output device . |
| 12 | ‘ I recall the under-21 team finding Scott Booth , from Aberdeen , in an emergency like this one and look at the player he turned out to be , ’ said Brown . |
| 13 | So anybody that worked at the baking trade and was twenty seven was reserved . |
| 14 | She braced herself and gazed at the compass , silently begging the needle to stop wavering to and fro . |
| 15 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , thrusting the book at him and pointing at the entry . |
| 16 | ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair . |
| 17 | He took the seat to which Carson had gestured him and glanced at the message slip . |
| 18 | I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling . |
| 19 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 20 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 21 | Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre . |
| 22 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 23 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
| 24 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
| 25 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 26 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |
| 27 | He had moved past her and stood at the foot of a soaring staircase , hands on his hips . |
| 28 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 29 | He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside . |
| 30 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |