Example sentences of "at [pron] [conj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's work to be done in the world — so much to be found out — ’ He checked himself abruptly , lifted his glass at me and took a sip from it . |
| 2 | Would you guys like to look at me and ask a answer a question . |
| 3 | Through the raindrops which were snail-trailing across my visor as I accelerated , I could see a marshal on the start/finish line flapping his yellow flag at me and screwing a finger at his temple . |
| 4 | ‘ The trouble is people take one look at them and stick a label on you . |
| 5 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 6 | ‘ He wins at everything and enjoys a flutter on the horses as well as his football pools . ’ |
| 7 | He looked at her and saw a stranger , who had never been anything else . |
| 8 | Rachel looked at her and felt a spark of hope , knowing Damian did want , above and beyond all else , to make love to her . |
| 9 | He waved and grinned at her and jerked a thumb upwards . |
| 10 | So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ? |
| 11 | When responsible citizens or policemen came rushing out into the road to grab at it and avert a disaster , Uncle Titch would leap up from behind his seat and pretend they just had n't noticed him . |
| 12 | She looked up at it and lit a cigarette . |
| 13 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 14 | Nor the samples that the postman has kindly left on the doorstep these last few years , thereby avoiding the abuse I was wont to hurl from the bedroom window at anything that made a noise before 8.30am . |