Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] at the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Before I go to the supermarket , I usually stop off for a drink ; I sit at the bar and watch the real world go by .
2 Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night .
3 I know what I see when I look at the grass and I have been told that the colour is called ‘ green ’ .
4 Behold , I stand at the door and knock : if any man hear my voice , and open the door , I will come in to him Revelation 3 : 20
5 All Church assemblies should perhaps have the motto , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ inscribed above the door to remind them that the Church exists for outsiders not insiders .
6 ‘ One can not say to the Zanaki people along the shores of the sprawling Lake Victoria , ‘ Behold I stand at the door and knock ’ ( Rev. 3:20 ) .
7 Accordingly , in the Zanaki translation it is necessary to say , ‘ Behold , I stand at the door and call ’ ’ ( Nida 1952:46 ) .
8 I stand at the bottom and watch him .
9 I stare at the screen while they show a grainy old black-and-white photo of me , younger , with longer hair .
10 I stare at the towel and I am frightened .
11 I remember at the Uni when we used to give we used to put stamps on people , you know ,
12 I remember at the time that all the crews felt a great deal happier being so much nearer the rest of the Lancs and Halifaxes , and no longer were in great danger of our oppoes dropping bombs and incendiaries on us .
13 I pay at the counter and get my change .
14 Calling for action to prevent a repetition , Mr Barter said : ‘ I doubt at the moment that the intersection is safe . ’
15 this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but
16 yeah he said oh Margaret wages have been took out me car he said I ge , I 'll get it at some point for you Margaret he said when I go at the bank but he said , yours was taken out Jack 's car
17 I shout at the car when I 'm getting cut up
18 Pets , he just wants to say hello , you knock at the door and this Afghan wolfhound is playing in the back there , take it in the kitchen and they say to you he only wants to say hello , that 's right
19 And you know , you look at the water and you see in the water a perfect reflection of what there is above .
20 Also if you look at the way that the fox is described .
21 The idea of the tour is so that they can actually er listen to it , but they can turn it off whenever they want and they can use their guide book to see what is in each room and if you look at the guidebook as we go round , you will find that that the things are illustrated , you know the pot .
22 I 'm sure it 's not unusual : you look at the title or the cover and you know all about it .
23 Although we know it is important to teach children that the roots of their culture are in the village , and in the preservation of values and the importance of agriculture , if you look at the primary and secondary level , we find that these aspects are not much stressed .
24 But everybody overeats , but most people , I mean they 're , if you look at the rubbish that we , that we push into ourselves that we should n't push in and that 's the bit that causes the damages
25 Oh yeah they 've got one forty R on there but , I mean you look at the set and it says er where did I get the number ?
26 If you look at the Figure and study it carefully you will be able to recognize a number of " commonsense " points .
27 What you do is , you look at the environment and consider like the inputs and then you look at behaviour as outputs and you learn the relationship between the two and you do n't neces you do n't have to understand what goes on inside .
28 They 're designed primarily to be fast and powerful and therefore they 're very polluting and in fact , when you look at the engineering and craftsmenship , it could be much more usefully employed making models more fuel efficient and therefore , less polluting .
29 Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies
30 So you look at the competency and most jobs have a a standard of performance do n't they ?
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