Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 2 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 3 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 4 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
| 5 | It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do . |
| 6 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 7 | I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's . |
| 8 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 9 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 10 | ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport . |
| 11 | And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin . |
| 12 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 13 | She wrapped up warmly , winding a scarf round her neck , crossing it over her chest and pinning it at the back , as her mother had done in her childhood . |
| 14 | Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit . |
| 15 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |
| 16 | ‘ Naw , ’ he replied angrily , crumpling up the pools coupon and throwing it at the television set . |
| 17 | As Kopyion walked towards him , Carlson ordered him to stop , aimed his weapon and fired it at the general 's shoulder . |
| 18 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 19 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 20 | I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one . |
| 21 | We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society . |
| 22 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 23 | A qualified instructor will demonstrate how to use equipment properly , how to get the best from your body and enjoy it at the same time . |
| 24 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 25 | He crawled out of the trench and joined me at the gun . |
| 26 | Then Nour turned and saw us , and he leapt from his chair and took a cup of coffee ready-poured and threw it at the cat , who was near my foot , so that my foot was covered in coffee and the cat fled . |
| 27 | ‘ Listen , friend , ’ the Campbell produced a pistol and pointed it at the tall boy , ‘ do you see this ? ’ |
| 28 | If your statute obviously belongs to a particular title , like ‘ Contract , ’ take down that volume of the collection and open it at the title ( known as the ‘ group ’ ) . |
| 29 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 30 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |