Example sentences of "[verb] at [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean you sleep at home as well ? ’ |
| 2 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |
| 3 | David had winked at Juliet as he passed Bobbie 's bed , where the physiotherapist had just finished . |
| 4 | I was telephoned at home as soon as it happened and when I arrived everyone was here , police , fire brigade , the gas board and the bomb squad . |
| 5 | When a man looks at nature as Thoreau did , he is moved by some invisible influence . |
| 6 | He , I I used to hi to him , like he used to work at Wembley as well and I used to go , obviously we were walking , coming out of the place like , and I 'd say I 'd go , hi there ! |
| 7 | Thereafter , the matter is to be considered at meetings as follows : — |
| 8 | The latest issue of the Microprocessor Report takes a deserved pot shot at Unix as still being insufficiently standardised that it may have missed its opportunity to make any credible dent on the desktop — Solaris and Destiny notwithstanding . |
| 9 | Specialist nurses have particular expertise in one field of nursing , usually in an area where the patient and family need teaching and support at home as well as in hospital . |
| 10 | Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere . |
| 11 | Let the unit step function for which the step occurs at time as depicted in figure 11.4(a) be denoted by U(t) . |
| 12 | He occurs at York as clerk and canon during the 1120s in the entourage of Archbishop Thurstan [ q.v. ] ; about 1135 he became dean of York , presiding as such in June 1141 when William Fitzherbert [ q.v. ] was chosen to succeed Thurstan . |
| 13 | What I have tried to do in this chapter is to suggest a way of looking at towns as though they were a special kind of landscape — as indeed they are — to get behind the guide-books and the individual buildings to the secret history of these places : to draw attention to what I think are some of the significant bits of urban landscape that point the way into this secret history . |
| 14 | They were n't looking at Nisodemus as he spoke , but at the crowd . |
| 15 | It states : I am currently looking at carpets as I need to replace the Stoddard Super Sax in my drawing room which was purchased around 28 years ' ago . |
| 16 | He had made a cigarette and now he lit it , looking at Braden as he blew the smoke up in the air . |
| 17 | You got a business partnership wan na protect one of their directors , one of their top producers , or whatever it may be , they can take a plan out , on the life of their employee so again marketing here , he 's looking at companies as well as individuals . |
| 18 | Marise said dismissively , not really looking at Belinda as she spoke . |
| 19 | " The missus made it , " he said , pushing the big cup towards Patrick , but looking at Tom as he spoke , " strong and sweet as you said . " |
| 20 | You 're looking at policy as well as technical resources are n't you ? |
| 21 | The young man was looking at Wycliffe as though he faced the last judgement . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'll be counting seals and looking at reindeer as well as looking at affects on the environment . |
| 23 | He stepped forward , offering his hand to the albino but looking at Berdichev as he did so . |
| 24 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's coming this way , ’ said Lee who was still looking at Jack as he came up to the gate , his eyes fixed on the gun . |
| 26 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 27 | He had a way of looking at people as though they amused him , just like you might look at the antics of white mice in a cage . |
| 28 | Switch on and move the appropriate levers on the banks of controllers , and the children come running out of the house , little pink-cheeked creatures half an inch high , who turn to wave at Felicity as she comes out on the terrace to see them off to school . |
| 29 | The 2–8–0 is seen at Shireoaks as it takes the line to Shirebrook , heading back to its Buttlerley base . |
| 30 | MacCabe was appointed to the professorship because he was seen at Strathclyde as " one of the ablest men of his generation " , having " an outstanding record in teaching and research " . |