Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We shall look at them in turn . |
| 32 | We shall look at it in some detail in this chapter , devoting two sections , 5.1 and 5.2 , to it . |
| 33 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 34 | I would go at it like mad and when the middle bit came I would think , ‘ Thank God , I can have a rest , ’ says Charman . |
| 35 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 36 | Rose did n't smack her charge : too little ; but she would complain at her in exasperated sing-song . |
| 37 | ‘ Everybody in Avonlea will laugh at me for putting medicine in a cake ! ’ |
| 38 | ‘ People will laugh at me in the village ! ’ he said . |
| 39 | But not half as many as will laugh at you for writing such a loathsome , snivelling letter to the NME . |
| 40 | Only regressive assimilation of voice is found across word boundaries , and then only of one type ; since this matter is important for foreign learners we will look at it in some detail . |
| 41 | Boxing clever : Chris Eubank ( left ) copes with all that challenger , Lindell Holmes , can throw at him during a successful WBO title defence at Olympia |
| 42 | We can look at them in Mr Livesey 's room . ’ |
| 43 | Well I think you can look at it on two levels and one , one reason is to change the Party structure shake them up a bit , cos there 's , there 's evidence that they were erm you know moving to the right and allying with er rich peasants and landlords , and the other , on the level is actually having a policy which would get mass support and this obviously would require incentives in the form of land to peasants . |
| 44 | His Metropole is a Cathedral of such awe- inspiring magnificence that no one can look at it without feeling he is in the presence of a concept beyond human scale . |
| 45 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 46 | We can look at it from both agnostic and religious viewpoints . |
| 47 | okay I mean y y you can look at it from a point of view that Mao is a real revolutionary and that 's what he wants |
| 48 | Then we can look at it in its entirety , see the whole problem , and shape harmonies , rhythmic details , form , texture , etc. , into the best possible mould . |
| 49 | If they do n't we will tough it out because we are healthy and strong and can go at it with determination and gusto . |
| 50 | Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’ |