Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait . |
| 2 | But on the other hand , the bibliography for the Tate catalogue required that I look back at a lot of old notices and I find that my perception was not at all valid . |
| 3 | Not long after that blow to the ego , I turned up at a studio to do a commercial . |
| 4 | I called in at a Sainsbury 's to buy some essential items . |
| 5 | After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me . |
| 6 | Ferrying Jamie to his sporting activities has made me more conscious of the need to exercise , and I work out at a gym once or twice a week . ’ |
| 7 | Last summer I was down in London on business and … er … it happened that , by chance … through some friends , I ended up at a party given by … er … well , some people in Holland Park . |
| 8 | Bloomsbury House sent them to help out at a hostel . |
| 9 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 10 | She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch . |
| 11 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 12 | She looked down at a letter on the table in front of her , collecting her thoughts . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’ |
| 15 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 16 | On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint . |
| 17 | We look in at a window . |
| 18 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 19 | We 're early , so we call in at a pub . |
| 20 | It was beautiful , an antique that we picked up at a flea market in Bath . |
| 21 | We ended up at a bar near the theatre . |
| 22 | We sat down at a table and he poured me out some tea . |
| 23 | HUNDREDS of young fans were left disappointed after they turned up at a video store to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger and found a lookalike instead . |
| 24 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
| 25 | They pulled out at a point not where the cost they thought was n't worth it , but they pulled out because people associate |
| 26 | On the fourth evening of their waterborne journey they tied up at a place which had thickets of hazel and birch growing near the water . |
| 27 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 28 | Eventually they end up at a reprocessing plant where they are ground into tiny flakes , washed and dried . |
| 29 | On the corner of the cul-de-sac they go off at an angle do n't they . |
| 30 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |