Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 3 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 4 | But suppose I look at a clock on the ground floor — through binoculars , say . |
| 5 | I look at a person and if you like me you like me |
| 6 | When I look at a picture of a naked man , I can think like Richard Dyer : ‘ I 'd like to feel that man and I 'd like to be that man . ’ |
| 7 | I look at a garden before me as if I am a camera that can throw reality out of focus and can twist and contort and blur . |
| 8 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 9 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
| 10 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 11 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 12 | I look at a book , and I drink warm milk . |
| 13 | Kids bring out the natural father in me and I get a crinkly mouth every time I look at an ankle snapper . |
| 14 | I stand at an easel to paint . |
| 15 | I kick at a flint , hard , missing and catching my other ankle . |
| 16 | I ring at a plastic bell and hear an electronic chime . |
| 17 | Erm we have we had in in this particular set of accounts thirty five pounds on two occasions for rooms er which we had to let go and computer data er which is still being processed I understand at a cost of forty pounds . |
| 18 | However , to go on justifying ends by further ends will involve me in an infinite regress unless I arrive at a terminus in something that I do for its own sake . |
| 19 | Applying a multiplier of eighteen to that figure , I arrive at a figure of fifty nine thousand , three hundred and forty nine pounds and sixty pence , which is the award I would make . |
| 20 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 21 | During my week , I play at a number of keep fit classes around Darlington . |
| 22 | ‘ With other illustrators , I work at a distance — we visit and phone , but there is a point at which I ca n't pester them any more , ’ Allan says . |
| 23 | I work at a day centre for people with learning difficulties and we have recently been donated a Brother KH710 . |
| 24 | I work at a hardware store on Saturdays and save the money . |
| 25 | I work at a distribution centre , where there is continuous shiftwork , which means that women and men are walking home at all hours of day and night often taking short-cuts across playing fields and waste land , totally unaware of the potential dangers . |
| 26 | Afterwards I drink at a pool quietly . |
| 27 | A series of record cards are produced which reveal at a glance the condition and effectiveness of the stock in each interest category , and an ‘ annual replacement target ’ is worked out which serves for the selector as the target figure of acquisitions for his category during the year . |
| 28 | From the Regional Transmission System the gas is fed into networks which operate at a pressure of either seven or two bar . |
| 29 | The villas also possess refrigerators which operate at a volume level slightly below that of a Hercules transport plane taking off with a full load . |
| 30 | Some councils have also set up local enterprise boards ( many of which are now organized on a regional basis ) which operate at an arms-length from the councils and are separate legal entities with a commitment to working with financial and commercial agencies to encourage local investment . |