Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was with other girls I especially enjoyed playing at nunneries , and pretending to be nuns . |
| 2 | I just had to stay at home for a bit . |
| 3 | " I just remember feeling at home . |
| 4 | And I just want to look at capital deployment here . |
| 5 | Well I always I always try quacking at ducks and they seem to quack back . |
| 6 | I always stop to look at death . |
| 7 | ‘ But I feel fine in myself and I definitely want to play at Wembley . |
| 8 | I actually enjoy working at OBEX ; it 's a lot more varied than I ever imagined . |
| 9 | You only need to look at John Jensen to know it does . |
| 10 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 11 | I mean , you only have to look at top of that cupboard , and it were do n't yesterday . |
| 12 | She suddenly started screeching at Bruno , so abruptly that Maxim felt a jab in his spine and knew he 'd come very close to being shot . |
| 13 | what do you specially want to look at Richard ? |
| 14 | Except for occasional — rare — meals at a nearby restaurant , they never went out , sending out for meals when they did n't feel like cooking , while Luke no longer even accompanied her to the various work-connected functions she sometimes had to attend at weekends , dealing with business matters of his own or else remaining at the apartment while she was out . |
| 15 | She half turned to look at Curtis , raised her heavily bandaged hand and shuddered as she added , ‘ I get nightmares now , just thinking about that man and what he did to me . ’ |
| 16 | The hurt tightened her lips and she absolutely refused to look at Alain . |
| 17 | But we can see the horror now , we only need to look at television and Yugoslavia . |
| 18 | We only have to look at Tintswalo Hospital ( Gazankulu ) and more than three surrounding villages that fall under the jurisdiction of Lebowa Authority for evidence of this inaccessibility . |
| 19 | ‘ It was important to come back after Saturday , and we always want to win at home . |
| 20 | In order to arrive off difficult coastlines in daylight we often had to sail at night from the Outer Isles . |
| 21 | We therefore propose to introduce at Report Stage a Government amendment which will provide for discretionary trusts which were in existence on 26th March 1974 to rearrange their position , if they so wish , at rates of charge which will be substantially below the rates that would otherwise be chargeable . |
| 22 | They only have to look at Thames 's shares to see what life might mean under Labour : since the start of March they have fallen 13 per cent to 333p . |
| 23 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 24 | They too had suffered at Fedorov 's hands . |
| 25 | The economy embarks on a rather sluggish crawl up the new LM curve until it eventually comes to rest at point C where there is a new , higher equilibrium level of income , Y 2 |
| 26 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 27 | He also found learning at school a trial . |
| 28 | It often involves looking at problems afresh and giving serious consideration to ideas which have traditionally been regarded as impossible or is practicable . |
| 29 | He was one of six chosen from a brigade of 40 to accompany Quinn when he then left to work at Ettington Park , Staffordshire . |
| 30 | Three decades on and he 's still enthralled — he almost falls blubbering at John Lee 's feet . |