Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , whenever I am called to dine at the palace , I always sport an old straw boater or knitted bobble hat , to exercise my hereditary privilege . |
| 2 | Difficulties may arise because you are forced to look at the situation from two different viewpoints : |
| 3 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 4 | It grew harder later , when she was sent to study at a special school for the blind — the other kids taunted her because , by then , she was also going deaf . |
| 5 | She was compelled to stop at a particular stall , where a woman was selling crystals . |
| 6 | He rolled over , and she was left staring at the daunting stretch of his broad back . |
| 7 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 8 | She was forced to stand at the back , squashed between a thin jeans-clad youth with bony shoulders and sharp elbows and a red-faced man with a paunch . |
| 9 | She was found wandering at a golf course , near Stockport , Cheshire , on Monday . |
| 10 | In , for instance , The huge locomotive snorted and belched its way across the plain we are invited to look at the locomotive as if it were a gigantic animal . |
| 11 | In 1987 we were invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in the ‘ Celebrating Age ’ programme , and auditions were held to form a 55+ Team under the direction of Jean Parmiter . |
| 12 | And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet . |
| 13 | Yet if the crackdown on the Press which is being demanded goes ahead , journalists would be working with both hands tied behind their backs — as opposed to the one-hand handicap they are forced to suffer at the moment . |
| 14 | As a result , they are normally very tired during weekdays when they are compelled to wake at a normal time for work . |
| 15 | Then they were asked to look at a young boy . |
| 16 | They were born joined at the hip and are learning to walk with artificial legs after being separated . |
| 17 | Whilst they were doing five shows a day and rehearsing at the Paramount , they were told to double at the Lido . |
| 18 | The Rex/Olympia doubling soon finished but before they could relax to a comparatively simple regime of five shows a day , they were told to double at the Paramount . |
| 19 | There is little point paying large amounts to establish a leafy bower outside an office if it is left to wither at the mercy of cleaners or caretakers . |
| 20 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 21 | Because of the nature of his studies he was sent to work at the Esso refinery at Fawley . |
| 22 | He was sent to study at the University of Cambridge . |
| 23 | But while he was placed on the ‘ at risk ’ register he was allowed to remain at the foster home at Ysgubor Esgob , a smallholding near Gwalchmai . |
| 24 | He was forced to bend at the waist , looming over him . |
| 25 | Iron-hard fingers dug into Joseph 's thinning hair and pulled his head back until he was forced to look at the soft spoken man . |