Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I agreed with their political views , I could not condone the way they acted and was glad to see them go at last . |
| 2 | And that I , I would n't be adverse , I know it means you know you , you , if you put s some extra into one thing you 've got to take it away from somewhere else , but I , I , I would be quite happy to see them look at special needs and whether we actually need even more careers officer time for that . |
| 3 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 4 | Peter does n't make me laugh at all . |
| 5 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 6 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 7 | It was only the thought of this poor baby in me that made me stir at all and get myself to a friend of Ferdinando 's who is in the way of knowing all the business of the street being a wine-merchant and visited by all . |
| 8 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No , I do n't think I believe at all . |
| 11 | I do n't think I did at all Dennis . |
| 12 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
| 13 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 14 | The Air Force , again for reasons of cost , wants them based at existing missile sites in Wyoming , whence they would flee when a crisis loomed . |
| 15 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 16 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |
| 17 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
| 18 | hot water bottles are useful for keeping you warm at any time of the day or night . |
| 19 | Hot water bottles are useful for keeping you warm at any time of the day or night . |
| 20 | You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Tickets are valid all day enabling you to alight at one attraction before re-boarding a later bus and heading to another . |
| 23 | seriously by the time yeah , you get a bus out of here , say it 's cancelled you leave at twelve o'clock . |
| 24 | When you 've done that I want you to look at this . |
| 25 | I suggest we start at nine , ’ she told Silvia . |
| 26 | Has anybody looked at that ? |
| 27 | Erm , has anybody looked at any of the other books , like for example , the one on ? |
| 28 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 29 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 30 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |