Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 2 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 3 | Léonie smiled at Thérèse in the mirror and zipped her up at the back . |
| 4 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 5 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | But because there 's a demand for it , the buses run to the school and pick them up at the school . |
| 7 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 8 | In 1912 Walter Long accepted the phrase " the new style " and flung it back at the government : " The New Style consists in the cynical violation of the honourable traditions of public life . |
| 9 | He apologized and helped her down at the end of the road . |
| 10 | McLaren 's conviction that Branson wanted revenge , to find a way to seize control of the Pistols for good , ‘ and cut me off at the pass ’ , now became an obsession . |
| 11 | We happened to pass a woman pushing a pram , who for some reason produced a torch , no doubt in order to locate something , and directed it straight at the baby 's face . |
| 12 | Or walk out and let you down at the last minute . ’ |
| 13 | As he ate , he opened and closed drawers , he examined papers and objects on his desk : ‘ I 'll let you loose in the west gallery and catch you up at the door to the stock-room . |
| 14 | And opened them sharply at an insistent , warning buzz from her duty station . |
| 15 | Here we 're on two till six and as the old man come and pick her up and drop her off at the bingo . |
| 16 | Exasperated Pakistani officials have threatened to round up the Arabs and drop them off at the American embassy . |
| 17 | If they ca n't you can either stay at the flat or else I 'll give you some money and drop you off at a hotel . ’ |
| 18 | He picked up the book he was reading , and threw it violently at the rat . |
| 19 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
| 20 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 21 | Tommy picks up the Magnum and fires it twice at the stereo , one bullet in each cassette deck . |
| 22 | In the early hours of 9th January , 1969 , Vigilant sighted the suspect vessel entering the River Swale near the Isle of Sheppey and followed her in at a safe distance . |
| 23 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |
| 24 | The chute is a perfect dish hovering a metre or so above the snow and hauling me downwind at a speed that would be unthinkable on Nordic skis . |
| 25 | She slid her arms into her silk robe and tied it loosely at the waist . |
| 26 | The computer recognises some of the words and phrases which the child types in and reflects them back at the child as open-ended questions that encourage the child to reply . |
| 27 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 28 | Or you accept precisely what they do and claim it back at the end of the year . |
| 29 | Jesus , he 's sucking in air at the back and wuffing it out at the front . |
| 30 | ‘ They 're certainly tearing things down and putting them up at the moment . |