Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 2 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 3 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 4 | The evening was warm and calm , but the side-streets through which he wandered at random were almost deserted . |
| 5 | The tragic toll was reached at 8.30pm when gunmen boarded a bus outside a Catholic club in Republican West Belfast and singled out their victim who they shot at point-blank range . |
| 6 | They may also wish to use this paper to invite discussion and reflection among themselves and those with whom they work at local level . |
| 7 | Oh be able to practise what she preaches at long last . |
| 8 | We should build up the Western European Union as the defence pillar of the European union , but the treaty embodies the view set out in the Anglo-Italian proposal two months ago , and endorsed at last month 's summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that whatever we do at European level must be compatible with NATO . |
| 9 | Writing of what he knew at first-hand , Marryat could be allusive in a way which later writers could not emulate . |