Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 2 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 3 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 4 | I glanced at Lili thinking that she must know and would somehow reveal what was disturbing him . |
| 5 | Well I think at central level they have a letter do n't they , because from the reports I 've read local authorities exercise discretionary powers on the amount of Poll Tax to be charged on empty farm dwellings . |
| 6 | I 've got a calendar from the day I start shooting , and I start crossing off the days the way I did at high school , waiting for summer vacation to begin . ’ |
| 7 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 8 | I work at High House Farm Riding Stables . |
| 9 | Public marches permit the display of one 's symbols : the flags , the banners , the open Bible , and , on occasions , the uniforms which hint at potential violence . |
| 10 | Sources within the Stock Exchange confirmed yesterday that the sudden pre-bid surge in the traded options market is being examined by an insider dealing investigation team which looks at suspicious activity ahead of the release of price-sensitive information . |
| 11 | Brightness shares the pool with two dolphins , and another Beluga whale , called Yegor , which arrived at Laspi Bay 10 days ago , from the dolphinarium in Novorossysk , Russia . |
| 12 | Praising Durkheim , Eliot had written about and summarized Max Müller 's attitude ( largely based on Sanskrit philology ) , which looked at primitive religion chiefly through its myths , finding in primitive deities personifications of larger forces of nature and seeing in the primitive mind a sentiment of wonder at such forces , a basic intuition of the ‘ infinite ’ . |
| 13 | Current local state functions are a microcosm of the repressive and class-biased strategies which apply at central state level ( Cockburn , 1977 ) . |
| 14 | The new channel was dredged to about 10.3 metres below high water ordinary spring tide which means at low water of the same tide approximately 5.5 metres of water was available . |
| 15 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |
| 16 | Anyone wanting to join has to apply and needs a two-thirds vote in favour to be allowed in , ’ says Mr Smythe , who lives at Green Bank , Heighington , near Darlington . |
| 17 | Her mother who lives at nearby Bowleymead is estranged from her husband Richard Yates . |
| 18 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 19 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 20 | So then this technique enables you to look at single channel currents , and moreover , if you 've got a partially er purified preparation of endomembranes it enable to look at channels in endomembranes too . |
| 21 | And our view is that whichever way you look at approved structure plan and the two decisions of the Secretary of State , first of all in er er on the approved structure plan and secondly , on the first alteration to the structure plan . |
| 22 | No because if you look at Marxist writing it 's , i it 's , you go through certain stages and you ca n't achieve |
| 23 | As the man with some previous experience of CAA hearings , it was Randolph Fields who arrived at Civil Aviation House in Kingsway , London , on the first day of the hearing to present the case for the newly inaugurated Virgin Atlantic Airways . |
| 24 | Or are you pointing at thin air ? ’ |
| 25 | She vanished at full tilt towards the kitchen-garden and the orchards . |
| 26 | You might cope for a while with one eye closed or one hand behind your back but you would n't keep it up for long — nor would you perform at maximum ability . |
| 27 | ‘ Haff you heard at aal apout a maan caald Menzies ? ’ one asked the other in a broad parody of the Gaelic accent . |
| 28 | Clacton police want to hear from a ginger-haired man , aged about 18 , who called at nearby Branwhite 's garage about 8.45 pm to eliminate him from their inquiries . |
| 29 | She assisted at French cave excavations , including La Quina in Charente , where she was introduced to Neanderthal man and his Mousterian culture , thereafter to be a central interest . |
| 30 | The old people who live at Branksome Hall really look forward to our events . |