Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | I gazed up at the building . |
| 8 | As I wrapped myself in my gas cape and crouched down in a corner of the trench , I gazed up at the sky . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was not Boat Race standard , but I got by at the level of intercollege competition . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I look over at the changing room . |
| 15 | It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in . |
| 16 | I look back at the door . |
| 17 | I look down at the map of the estate . |
| 18 | I was still brimming with plangency , chockful of feeling , when I arrived back at the hotel . |
| 19 | When I arrived back at the cafe , I found Kathleen in a perplexed mood . |
| 20 | The guns along the banks of the Orne were still firing as I arrived back at the jeep . |
| 21 | I arrived back at the Palace Hotel and started to pack . |
| 22 | I glance in at the ASI — still reading 150 — then throw my heavy helmeted head back to see the white skyline creeping forward along the canopy . |
| 23 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 24 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 25 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 26 | ‘ I turned up at the party pretty much at the start , I think , around a quarter to nine . |
| 27 | Sometimes in the Cauldhame Arms I stand up at the urinal , but most if it ends up running down my hands or legs . |
| 28 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 29 | I set out at the time the details of the areas where we would see new and better facilities reopening , and those better facilities have reopened . |
| 30 | The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon . |