Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The papingo , measuring 8 inches from wingtip to wingtip , is still fixed to the end of a pole extending outwards from the top of the Abbey clock tower , and the archers must shoot vertically at it with one foot on the bottom step of the tower . |
| 2 | They were halfway through their second round of drinks when he finished ; she leaned away so that — sitting beside him — she could peer back at him through the dimness . |
| 3 | He could get back at them in some commando-style way . |
| 4 | In the early days of the band , before John arrived , he 'd beaver away at us in the pub , making us think through our attitudes We ’ d be sitting there talking about music and he 'd dive in . |
| 5 | You used to go on at me about getting out . |
| 6 | That would get back at them for their currency chicanery which cost us so dear . |
| 7 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 8 | In contrast , the D-32 's tighter , more introverted qualities mean that you can thrash away at it with complete abandon and still get a smooth , rich , controlled and , it has to be said , very Martin-esque result . |