Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive .
2 Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber .
3 The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time .
4 It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing .
5 The professor 's secretary , who is wearing fluffy aquamarine slippers , asks me to wait at the end of a blank corridor .
6 Much of the writing about television fiction seems to me to remain at the level of elementary genres , grounded in the dominance of the semantic aspect , with relatively little analytic or historical attention to the ‘ verbal ’ ( style , mise-en-scene ) or the ‘ syntactic ’ ( narrative structure ) : there is very little close textual analysis of television fiction , and there is no scholarly history of the development of television form to compare with the histories which have emerged of early cinema .
7 We must let them know at the station , or there will be an awful accident . ’
8 His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time .
9 ‘ One of them was so desperate to stop me overtaking at the ford he lost his footing and fell backwards into the water . ’
10 The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast .
11 Yes there were criticism but it 's not appropriate for me to comment at the moment .
12 ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats .
13 And the answer 'll be no , cos nothing has at the moment .
14 Nothing moved at the crossroads , or nothing that threatened a soldier 's life .
15 Perhaps you could let me know at the meeting next Wednesday .
16 Well if you let me know at the meeting then I 'll . .
17 If you let me know at the meeting and .
18 Well let me know at the meeting .
19 Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week .
20 Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies .
21 All the questions I asked at the beginning were concerned with the Old testament passage and started ‘ Why ? ’ .
22 The question I pose is the one that I asked at the beginning of my speech : do those in government and opposition have the courage to set about creating a new beginning to bring about peace , political stability , and an end to the tensions between Ireland and Britain , and can they bring the beginnings of hope for my constituents and the people in the north of Ireland ?
23 Might , perhaps ; there 's just something ; that 's why I asked at the meeting , but I 'd have to see the letter first , partly to see what 's in it , partly just to see it . ’
24 I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years .
25 I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper .
26 I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings .
27 I gazed at the picture of the crocodile pool and all I could think of to say was , did the gallery owner give you a discount because you 're a friend of Robert 's ?
28 Yeah , if I sell at a time when there 's still a recession on and you see somebody has to get my they had a visit perhaps that was somebody that actually bought a house , not she not
29 ‘ I 'm very optimistic that we can get the goals , but we do n't need to chase the game right from the start and leave ourselves exposed at the back .
30 The fact that the position is more complicated , however , should be obvious if we remind ourselves of the point I made at the beginning of Chapter 2 : how variable teachers are .
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