Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that , it does n't say after the SAT , the written comment can be made er , where we send er D and I reports home at the moment , i.e. er , just after half term in the second term . |
| 2 | Erm , and that 's about it really , erm , she lives in at the minute , and this was a gentleman called in the sky . |
| 3 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 4 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 5 | Her eyes are hot , she stares out at the water , at the summerhouse . |
| 6 | She winces visibly at the memory . |
| 7 | Back on the main road , it turns right at the junction in Gleann Beag , passing a complex of handsome farm buildings , and ascends a long incline where much-needed improvements have taken place . |
| 8 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 9 | " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black . |
| 10 | if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem . |
| 11 | He kicks moodily at the carpet . |
| 12 | He looks up at the class . |
| 13 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 14 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 15 | He looks longingly at the teapot and the tiny red cups . |
| 16 | He glances down at the table , as if the answer might be written on a beer mat . |
| 17 | ‘ This is fantastic ! ’ he shouts back at the porter , now several floors below him . |
| 18 | One per over per batsman is the ration , with a bouncer being defined as a ball passing over the batsman 's shoulder as he stands upright at the crease . |
| 19 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 20 | It looks closely at the range of policies developed by local government and in so doing assesses the relative responsibilities of various professional and political groups for their initiation and enactment . |
| 21 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |
| 22 | It looks only at the side of business interests who think only of trade liberalization . |
| 23 | The new fifth television channel , wherever it is situated , will open up further opportunities for programme-makers when it starts up at the end of 1993 . |
| 24 | Here Trogus introduces a note of realism which is echoed by Livy when he describes how at the beginning of the second century B.c. a third of the Greeks of Ampurias — a secondary settlement of the same Phocaeans — manned their walls every night in fear of the neighbouring Jberians ( 34.9 ) . |
| 25 | He shoots twice at the cashier , but misses both times . |
| 26 | Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination . |
| 27 | And he smiles afresh at the thought of what that particular victory meant to everyone who witnessed it . |
| 28 | He still has a still has a few technical problems with his speeches , his voice is very thin , he falls away at the end of sentences and when he rises to a crescendo his voice is like the distance whine of an aeroplane engine but what he said was exactly what they wanted to hear a return to family life and strong law and order . |
| 29 | If you 're knitting with the mylar sheet , it moves on at the start of the second row and is scanned at the end of the second row . |
| 30 | But because it operates only at the level of ideas , without any attempt to specify why particular ideas are held in particular societies at particular times , other than by reference to other ideas , interactionist social psychology can only describe peoples ' beliefs , not explain them . |