Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 2 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 3 | ‘ Any more than it 's possible for me to work up at the college with all those strapping lads running round in jockey shorts and have no reaction whatsoever . ’ |
| 4 | He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened . |
| 5 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 6 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 8 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 9 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 10 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 11 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 12 | From floor 110 , the highest point on the island , I gazed back at the midtown outbreak of skyscrapers , the Chrysler and the Empire State in their midst . |
| 13 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
| 14 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 15 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 16 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 17 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
| 18 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 19 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 20 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 21 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 22 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 23 | I groan inwardly at the prospect of a night playing Happy Families with a bunch of desk-jockeys and number-crunchers . |
| 24 | I look around at the milling people , imagining we 'll be split up into smaller groups and led through the blank doors to sit in armchairs and watch a TV set on some kind of plinth . |
| 25 | I look over at the changing room . |
| 26 | It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in . |
| 27 | I look back at the door . |
| 28 | I look down at the map of the estate . |
| 29 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 30 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |