Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 2 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 3 | On the way to my next appointment with Denis King , a piano and some Joyce Grenfell songs , I stopped at a nearby theatre to smile winsomely at the box office boys in the hope that they 'd recognize me , in spite of my Titian disguise , and sell me some tickets for their sell-out play . |
| 4 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
| 5 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 6 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 7 | A substantial amount of information which is necessary and which indeed was asked for by members of your I believe at a previous oral question time erm as to the number that were printed you may be shocked to know that one hundred copies were made which means that the total cost of this , I think you will agree , very worthwhile public information , was four hundred and sixty one pounds and twenty one pence . |
| 8 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 9 | I started at a new school after Easter and this may have something to do with it because it was n't as bad before . |
| 10 | I stared at a huge rectangle of light , it was pinkish floating flickering and suddenly I saw … a pig ! |
| 11 | As I sat in front of him , I looked at a poster-sized photo which was on the wall behind him . |
| 12 | It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years . |
| 13 | ‘ Have I come at a bad moment ? ’ she asked . |
| 14 | ‘ Have I come at a bad time ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's my show gear — I sing at a gay club in town . |
| 16 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 17 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
| 18 | A woman has been raped in her own home by a man she met at a local market . |
| 19 | You borrow at a fixed rate of interest and repay the loan over a number of years . |
| 20 | She dabbed at a watery eye . |
| 21 | And er I used to go myself quite a lot er when there were well when there were more than one coming up I 've seen me go into , down in the pullman train from here to er , well we had about five changes I think , fat father had it all marked out so as you changed at a certain place . |
| 22 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 23 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 24 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 25 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 26 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 27 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 28 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 29 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 30 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |