Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] 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 | Cantilever An outsole which flares out at the bottom to dissipate shock and aid cushioning and stability . |
| 3 | Glennis Park , from The Comet , Hurworth , is on a temporary six-month lease which runs out at the end of June . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her eyes are hot , she stares out at the water , at the summerhouse . |
| 14 | Fernando ( Jorge Sanz ) is a deserter who fetches up at the country home of Manolo , a lazy old artist . |
| 15 | no one sits out at the tables |
| 16 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 17 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 18 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 19 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 20 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 21 | He looks up at the class . |
| 22 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 23 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 24 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 25 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 26 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 27 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 28 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |
| 29 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 30 | If you 're knitting with the mylar sheet , it moves on at the start of the second row and is scanned at the end of the second row . |