Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A worn-looking hooker is getting her face slashed in the local whorehouse for laughing at her cowboy customer 's ‘ teensy little pecker ’ . |
| 2 | Then , falling into each other 's arms , they tumbled about laughing at their own precocious English . |
| 3 | this joke is not about laughing at your own jokes |
| 4 | he 's suffering , it 's bad about laughing at your own jokes that , you do n't do that . |
| 5 | Her mind vacillated between laughing at her fears and suspecting a terrible mystery . |
| 6 | After picking at her meal , she fled to her room and hid there , venturing out only once in search of a friendly nurse from the postnatal ward , Louise Hickson , with whom she hoped to talk the matter through . |
| 7 | Jones has given talks about muon catalysed fusion all over the USA and in Europe , so it is ironic that it was after speaking at his new home institution , Brigham Young University , on 12 March 1986 that the seminal interaction occurred with Paul Palmer . |
| 8 | ROCKY GRAZIANO , the former world middleweight champion , is in a stable condition in hospital after collapsing at his home on Monday . |
| 9 | If , as some Israeli ‘ moderates ’ argue , terrorism always was a marginal question , it is certainly infinitely less serious for Israel 's future than the mass popular unrest of the Intifada , but by continuing to lump everything they can — such as children throwing stones — under its general rubric , the ‘ extremists ’ seek to ‘ de-legitimise ’ the Intifada , and evade any necessity for looking at its real causes . |
| 10 | As they are the most common form met with in burial vaults it is worth looking at their construction in detail . |
| 11 | It 's also worth looking at your present routine to see if it can be streamlined . |
| 12 | Before taking on any job commitment it is worth looking at your personal priorities in detail , and working out where work will fit in . |
| 13 | Neither are the risks merely physical when she encourages a direct association between looking at her art and consuming food and drink , but the vast array of psychological dynamics which can motivate purchases as humble as a cup of coffee guarantees that the decision to choose one bar over another is often less casual than browsing through galleries . |
| 14 | Now a boy becomes instantly weaned because he would not dream of sucking at his mother 's breast now that he is a man . |
| 15 | The use of different divisions gave many more climbers the chance to experience the thrill of competing at their own level . |
| 16 | According to Kennex , any given section of any symmetrical frame-by width-responds to ball impact of vibrating at its own discreet frequency . |
| 17 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 18 | With the volume of trading at its highest recorded level , the leading FT-SE 100 index of top British companies jumped 150 points at one stage before settling 136.2 points ahead at 2572.6 — almost exactly the level at which the stock market stood when Chancellor Norman Lamont began his Budget address one month ago . |
| 19 | W H E R E A B O U T S seems to be a lack of spelling at your , this place Ah ! |
| 20 | She made a studied gesture of looking at her watch . |
| 21 | Diata suggests a holistic way of looking at our health and lifestyle to find the balance and rhythm that is lacking . |
| 22 | It 's crucial to realise , to remember , to know , that this is not just an intriguing way of looking at our lives . |
| 23 | Central to any redefinition of feminine culture are the new ways of looking at our bodies . |
| 24 | Well it certainly is , and we think that we 've had an examin of our co , examination of the constitution , we 've made a number of changes , but the task for Labour now is to press on with the issues of looking at our policies , and making sure that our economic policy and our social policy a actually meets the changes that are out their in the world . |
| 25 | Another way of looking at your budget is in percentage terms . |
| 26 | This is not a matter of sticking doggedly to a particular diet , but also of looking at your eating habits . |
| 27 | I made a show of looking at my watch . |
| 28 | Lili said that of course I must , but I made the error of looking at my mother for approval , found none and saw only displeasure at my childish crudity . |
| 29 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel I should write and thank you for the smooth transition and vast improvement to the standard of cleaning at our premises . |