Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 2 | But that , it does n't say after the SAT , the written comment can be made er , where we send er D and I reports home at the moment , i.e. er , just after half term in the second term . |
| 3 | The Clapis area is reached by taking the road to the Col du Cayron , just before Gigondas , then a forestry road which goes right at the col and contours round the hill . |
| 4 | Some cars can be fitted with a passenger seat which swings outwards at the touch of a lever to face the door , so that the patient does not have to twist to enter or leave the car . |
| 5 | I personally want us to win the game well , to resurrect team morale which seems halfmast at the mo . |
| 6 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 7 | The most explicit line in the piece , is a line from Owen 's poem , ‘ Strange Meeting ’ which comes almost at the end of the baritone solo in the last section of the War Requiem , the quietly and simply sung , |
| 8 | Statements by the West German Bundesbank indicate that it views monetary union as a state which comes only at the end of a very long process of economic convergence . |
| 9 | Cantilever An outsole which flares out at the bottom to dissipate shock and aid cushioning and stability . |
| 10 | Glennis Park , from The Comet , Hurworth , is on a temporary six-month lease which runs out at the end of June . |
| 11 | God help the feller who turns up at the factory to work in silk knickers under his overalls , but at Christmas , of course , on a stage , of course , it 's all perfectly all right . |
| 12 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 13 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 14 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 15 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 16 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 17 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 18 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 19 | When she arrives back at the WPGET 's headquarters , she will find that Alison Nicholas , a key player in the 1992 Solheim Cup , has handed in her notice as a member of the WPGET 's board . |
| 20 | Her eyes are hot , she stares out at the water , at the summerhouse . |
| 21 | Their aim is to deny the batsman room to play the ball away square of the wicket and wide of the fieldsmen in the V. They occasionally bowl a slower delivery to upset the timing of the batsman who swings uniformly at the ball in the expectation that it will always come on the bat at the same speed . |
| 22 | Fierce lock who jumps well at the front of the line-out . |
| 23 | Fernando ( Jorge Sanz ) is a deserter who fetches up at the country home of Manolo , a lazy old artist . |
| 24 | She winces visibly at the memory . |
| 25 | She used the fashion commission to extend the range of her mythic roles — a nightclub chanteuse , a Brunhilde , plus more familiar cinematic figures , such as the desert rose , and an overripe , vampish bother , plus a giantess , who gazes heavily at the camera from a beautiful Issey Miyake creation which " sets off " the colour of the bandage on her finger . |
| 26 | But Bill 's only living relative is challenging the gift to schoolgirl Cara , who works part-time at the restaurant at Chagrin Falls , Ohio . |
| 27 | I hope everything goes well at the country cottage . ’ |
| 28 | She tells Hello ! of her wishes for the baby : ‘ One is that everything goes well at the birth . |
| 29 | no one sits out at the tables |
| 30 | It should be remembered that the modern movement was responsible for great moral and social improvements when one looks sentimentally at the past . |