Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Brownie Helper 's husband would act as chauffeur , so not being able to think of more excludes , I duly arrived at the appointed hour , to find a welcoming party of six little girls , all anxious to fetch and carry equipment . |
| 2 | On that frozen trackway , however , I just stared at the grotesque thing lying in the snow ; the hand seemed to be thrusting up through the earth as if some ghoul was struggling to rise from its grave . |
| 3 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 4 | I usually stand at the shallow end after she 's finished teaching me the floating bit , and watch her have her swim . |
| 5 | I also looked at the painted surface . |
| 6 | For as much as I reject the demo mentality , I also despair at the apolitical bipartisanship of our national mainstream parties . |
| 7 | As the father of young children myself , I often wonder at the adult-oriented visual images , themes and preoccupations which seem to dominate so much of our children 's publishing , and the failure to recognise that today 's generations of youngsters have grown up conditioned by the immediate access and instant gratification provided by the likes of television and computer games . |
| 8 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 9 | ‘ Eh , gracias , eh , señor , ’ I half spat at the small man as I turned my back on him and left . |
| 10 | From Gaping Gill a path leads through a grassy dry valley which soon narrows at the boulderchoked entrance to Trow Gill , a small but imposing limestone gorge — possibly caused by a collapsed cave — through which Clapham Beck once tumbled before being swallowed up by Gaping Gill . |
| 11 | Our last port of call is at Chequer 's Buttress ( E1 5b ) , which fittingly stands at the far right end of Froggatt Edge . |
| 12 | The mode of action of quinolones is different from other antibiotics , which typically operate at the bacterial cell wall or at the ribosome . |
| 13 | The foursome , who all work at the special care baby unit at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough , will be attending the world 's first conference on neo-natal care , held in Washington DC . |
| 14 | Phyllis is very particular about cleanliness , which is why she always shops at the new branch of Safeways . |
| 15 | But if you look at the low-risk a aspect of a P E P and you also look at the low charges , it 's got to be worth looking at , and certainly in terms of spread for Miss , worth erm worth considering , I mean she 'd be er a perfect investor for that . |
| 16 | The breakthrough came from one of Eddy 's colleagues , Ronald Gilliland , who also works at the High Altitude Observatory . |
| 17 | Teesside Crown Court heard how Crook , 19 , and Davies , 21 , who both lived at the nine storey tower block , made a complete mess of the home improvements they were trying to do . |
| 18 | Most of the top-flight executive search consultants who now operate at the very top end of the market have developed their search careers by some functional or industry specialisation and there is evidence that this will continue to be an important factor . |
| 19 | One member of the ICRDG is Ian Gass , a geologist who now teaches at the Open University . |
| 20 | Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house . |
| 21 | She barely glanced at the bright creatures . |
| 22 | She barely gazed at the other women who clustered round staring , washing forgotten in the excitement of this unexpected entertainment . |
| 23 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 24 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 25 | Excellent so you 've already got percentages sorted out there , can we just look at the next block of words , and hello , hello , right , no , yeah well I , yes I I think it all went great , unfortunately erm , so I really ca n't really consider on , on that . |
| 26 | In this area of interest one normally looks at the classic work of Bartlett ( 1932 ) as providing the first base for the complex analysis of how people 's thought and language come together in their recall of complex materials . |
| 27 | Erm we , we have of course , we 've got a , we have a congress each year , which erm we , each Guild is allowed to send one delegate and so really , we always stress at the top level that erm you know , it 's you that run the Guild you ca n't blame head office , the Nat National Executive , because you 're the ones who send the people to the top , are n't you ? |
| 28 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 29 | In Chapter 3 we looked at the ‘ politics of variation ’ in a general sense : we asked why feminists would want to study male/female differences in language , and we also looked at the anecdotal tradition of ( often sexist ) comment feminists in the field have inherited — in some cases rather uncritically . |
| 30 | Er , we also announced at the same time as the Alton , er , Towers acquisition that Longman had acquired Rank Training for eleven and a half million pounds . |