Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 2 | He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted . |
| 3 | The bond equivalent yield is the coupon of a bond which when trading at par would give the same yield as a discount security . |
| 4 | Copper had trodden on me a couple of times in the stable , very uncharacteristically , and he also ran into a friend of mine while shying at something , as if she was n't there . |
| 5 | The government , said one speaker , did ‘ nothing but spit at our past offers for dialogue ’ . |
| 6 | The door closed after them and Harriet could do nothing but glare at it impotently . |
| 7 | The management could do nothing but smile at the incident . |
| 8 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 9 | The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) . |
| 10 | " He has n't done anything except fly at night , " was the answer . |
| 11 | She hurried Annie to the toilet , but once there Annie did n't seem to want to do anything but giggle at her . |
| 12 | Graham Vincent met us as arranged at Abergynolwyn and accompanied us up to Nant Gwernol . |