Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | Limply I gazed at the mortal oiliness of the water , in which no creature could prosper , and the dockside crowds of welcome floating and swimming above like tropical fish . |
| 3 | Be before we start can I make two quick announcements , one er I made at the last lecture , that is there is a public lecture given by Baroness at five fifteen today on the subject of the Soviet Union and wh where does it go , erm and that 's in . |
| 4 | Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected . |
| 5 | I pawed at the hairy form . |
| 6 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
| 7 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 8 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 9 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 10 | I say nearly because he woke as I stopped at the next petrol station . |
| 11 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 12 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 13 | One Christmas Eve I woke at the critical moment , and saw , not Santa Claus , but three familiar figures indulging in heavy horse play at the foot of the bed . |
| 14 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 15 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 16 | I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas . |
| 17 | During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves . |
| 18 | I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah . |
| 19 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 20 | When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future . |
| 21 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 22 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
| 23 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 24 | As for myself , I arrived at the first weekend in a state of high evangelism that must have bored everyone I met . |
| 25 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 26 | I found fifteen waiting for me when I arrived at the Awash Station , all thoroughly unhappy at the prospect ahead . |
| 27 | As I arrived at the recent show of Eileen Cooper 's drawings at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery after visiting the controversial ( read media-hype ) show , Strange Developments , at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery , I could not help but find great comfort in the sheer generosity of spirit with which these big drawings greet you . |
| 28 | When I arrived at the Big House , I was asked to stay to lunch . |
| 29 | Would you mind desperately if just this once I paid at the other end ? ’ |
| 30 | I weep at the impending demise of my oldest and supportive friend ! |