Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [coord] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end we asked them to come and sit at the back of the stage , ’ Miss Picon recalled . |
| 3 | I changed and bathed at the tavern where my master was staying in Great Mary Axe Street near Bishopsgate . |
| 4 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 5 | I turned and looked at the subtly tarted , much breathed-upon 300 sitting at the kerb , then made a show of sizing up Yvonne . |
| 6 | I turned and looked at the man 's tear-stained face . |
| 7 | I wave and clap at the crowd , blow kisses at them and bow , it is not theatricality but very genuine feeling . |
| 8 | I enjoyed and suffered at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | It was buried in the garden with all due ceremony , and all I knew or felt at the time was grief that I should never see my beloved pet again . |
| 10 | Can I go and sit at the table cos my tea 's there . |
| 11 | Can I interrupt and say at the moment that there 's a vast difference between a site which is set up indiscriminately on some layby somewhere with no direction or control and no facilities there , and the sort of the thing that we 're talking about . |
| 12 | It 's a thing I love and hate at the same time . |
| 13 | ‘ Can I come and sit at the table with you when the eggs and bacon are ready ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Will it be all right , ’ she ventured to say , ‘ if I come and look at the orchids tomorrow ? ’ |
| 15 | I sat and stared at the paper in front of me and tried to blank out the present and get back into my story — forward , that is , into my invented future , and out of the world of queries and vague apprehensions . |
| 16 | As I stood and gazed at the now empty slit trenches , I could n't help a sinking feeling in my stomach as I pictured in my mind those who had occupied the trenches in this orchard , those who had been killed or seriously wounded . |
| 17 | There were three or four cinemas round here — I stood and gazed at the pictures outside and thought , ‘ Space , cowboys and sex . |
| 18 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |
| 19 | This is the language of the press release , breathlessly informing us that a speculator whose environmental record is not exactly unblemished and whose monstrous Land 's End ‘ facilities ’ are a blight against all aesthetic considerations , really does care what happens to the dear little flowers that have taken eternity to develop , and the cuddly cliff faces which shake and quiver at the climber 's intrusive touch . |
| 20 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 21 | In an extract from the introduction to the Birds of Australia , Gould describes the fate that befell these two men who lived and died at the mercy of the violent and contrary Australian climate : |
| 22 | Se the Whitbread Hop Farm 's colourful history unfold in this authentic insight into the lives and times of the people who lived and worked at the Beltring Farm — A nostalgic experience not to be missed ! ! |
| 23 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 24 | When she had the hackles high on her shoulders , when she whined and scratched at the back door , then the house was watched . |
| 25 | Old Ranza , a very large and mostly white collie , sighed by her chair as she hummed and hawed at the cottage sketch . |
| 26 | She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds . |
| 27 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 28 | He knew that she stopped and stared at the sea or the sky far too much these days . |
| 29 | She stopped and blushed at the stupidity of the question , adding quickly , ‘ You work here in the village , of course . ‘ |
| 30 | The child stared towards it as if in recognition of something held in memory ; then she turned and looked at the old woman , who was sitting on the couch unlacing her boots , and she said , ‘ You have a garden . ’ |