Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know all the guests and something about them ; you can greet , welcome , introduce and generally make them feel at home . |
| 2 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 3 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 4 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 5 | Well , well she was , she was standing outside , I mean I looked at her this morning and I 've loo so I 've sort of looked at her , and I was going to speak to her and then this fella walked up and I thought , I , I mean I could n't gauge whether , and I mean my , I , I was thinking what I was going to say anyway , I was going to say er you know sa is it Paula so you perhaps do n't remember me but I , I , and then I was going to say I 'm Adrian , Adrian |
| 6 | it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold |
| 7 | I mean I think at the end of the day because we 're w going to have to basically in a sense your job I think even though at the moment you 're saying you know fine I 'm not gon na exclude anything , I think it 's actually going to be sort of , to try and eliminate most of this . |
| 8 | I 've given them er question mark on the shape of the country it 's a map but the ha what I think is easy , I du n no I mean to I mean I look at maps all day long , so |
| 9 | I mean I worked at , as an open afternoon or something where we invite like into the theatre |
| 10 | To loose them off together , scatter-gun fashion : Stavrogin says ‘ I am making this statement , incidentally , to prove I am in full possession of my mental faculties and understand my position ’ ; ‘ I want to forgive myself , this is my chief aim , my whole aim ’ ; ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ ; ‘ I fall back on this as my last resource ’ ; ‘ The thing about me then was I felt bored with life , sick and tired of it ’ ; ‘ I am seeking boundless suffering ’ ; ‘ I took it into my head to mutilate my life somehow ’ ( not necessarily the same thing as seeking suffering , any more than seeking suffering need entail accepting it ) . |
| 11 | Let us pause for a moment over ‘ I want everyone to look at me ’ . |
| 12 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 13 | ‘ If you mean I want them to look at my gown , you 're correct . ’ |
| 14 | When at last he placed the phone down he turned and gazed at Joe , saying in a bewildered tone , ‘ It 's Harry ; they … they want me to go at once . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I expect everyone to go at least a second faster tomorrow , ’ said Mansell , who set the record in the penultimate lap of the session . |
| 16 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |
| 17 | Well what d' ya get at school today then ? |
| 18 | ‘ As a precaution I suggest you look at what assets you can liquidise quickly . |
| 19 | ‘ I suggest you look at the evidence with your own eyes before you start accusations that you might find impossible to back up . |
| 20 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 21 | You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’ |
| 22 | I expect you aimed at the walls. , |
| 23 | What d' you do at work ? |
| 24 | They say she lived at Antioch in Pisidia during the reign of the Emperor Diocletian . |
| 25 | No , ever , everything we say she laughs at . |
| 26 | If you 're wanting to take er early retirement and erm you 're wanting enhancement say you retire at fifty nine and you want some enhancement , can you ask for enhancement sort of up to sixty five or has it only got to be up to sixty ? |
| 27 | as I say you look at I mean this is two fifty . |
| 28 | You say you work at a desk . |
| 29 | ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life . |
| 30 | She was waiting in the yard and she said , ‘ I want you to look at Angharad . |