Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 2 | many and I 've stopped eating them at Christmas when I brought them and I started eating them again . |
| 3 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 4 | The Hammers are considering a move for the 31-year-old , but Crosby said : ‘ I would n't consider selling him at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 6 | Go at a speed that you can enjoy riding it at . |
| 7 | ‘ Damn , Annie , stop quoting me at me . |
| 8 | No sooner have the Doctor and Vicki gone than the erstwhile school teachers are captured by slave traders who intend selling them at the slave markets in Rome . |
| 9 | The police team had gone from her house , she had managed to avoid seeing them at work by her long session with Gabriel and John Coffin in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 10 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah I I did it with Pauline , she she actually did n't mind doing it at one point before Christmas but it has n't come about and as she said , wo n't change it , it wo n't happen . |
| 12 | ‘ Why do you keep throwing her at me ? ’ he gritted . |
| 13 | But Keith really dreads leaving it at school . |
| 14 | I remember meeting him at about 6 o'clock one morning in an airport in the United States . |
| 15 | For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home . |
| 16 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 17 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 18 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 19 | Eagle 's Nest Direct was the first Very Severe rock climb in the British Isles and a route so serious then that to contemplate leading it at that time of primitive rope technique meant you also contemplated death . |
| 20 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 21 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 22 | I think there 's a possibility of overestimating the negative effect , because one sees newspapers and thinks , ‘ Oh , my God , they 're going to start shooting us at any minute . ’ |
| 23 | It would have been foolhardy to risk weakening it at a time when the Cold War was about to turn hot in Korea . |
| 24 | He kept holding it at me throat and threatening me … . ’ |
| 25 | It 's alright Peter used to live facing them at er Malton erm he was saying about the Charismatic how long their services go on , it 's about three hours , but he said you know they take their flasks or they just walk out and have a break if they want to and then go back in . |
| 26 | They mostly feed at dawn and dusk , so try feeding yours at these times , offering earthworms and pieces of fish . |
| 27 | Taking the moral seriously , however , does not mean taking it at face value and ignoring the potentially ironic and certainly easily seen limitations of morals of the kind just noted . |
| 28 | Rachel felt breathless , said softly , ‘ But I believed the stuff about Swift because you kept throwing it at me . ’ |
| 29 | When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so , avoiding touching him at all costs . |
| 30 | Faye had started painting her at eleven and was supposed to have had a blood glucose test at noon . |