Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 2 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 3 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 4 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 5 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 6 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 7 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 8 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 9 | Some of them aid the deception by raising their tails and wagging them at the approaching attacker , while keeping the rest of the body still . |
| 10 | The plant alkaloid ryanodine opens the channels at low ( nanomolar ) concentrations but closes them at higher doses ( micromolar ) . |
| 11 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 12 | This suggestion , that stylistics should characterize comparatively the language or style of texts and leave it at that , would seem to constitute a sort of minimal claim for the relevance of linguistics to the study of literature . |
| 13 | In Chicago on June 17 she attacked those attempting " to create a new artificial state by taking powers away from national states and concentrating them at the centre " . |
| 14 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 15 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 16 | In the early stages we were we you know used to take phone calls and take them at face value , and we got a phone call like this . |
| 17 | I know that in Beirut I simply took my child through the checkpoints and delivered her at the school gates . |
| 18 | Rip it into tiny pieces and throw it at the bride and groom at the next wedding you see . |
| 19 | Now this er of course was railway waggons and er when you started work you was put with a skilled man and i er it was his job to repair the waggons and teach you at the same time . |
| 20 | Chaman pulled out her dentures and flourished them at us . |
| 21 | Researchers can trap them in frozen gases and study them at leisure |
| 22 | He attacked her and threw her to the ground before turned his attention to the pub , picking up pool balls and throwing them at bottles of spirits behind the bar . |
| 23 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 24 | The idea was for Swedish studios to shoot films based on Scandinavian stories and aim them at an international market . |
| 25 | The firm collects the waste in lorries and processes it at a plant in the village of Cam Brea , producing 5 tonnes of black tin per week . |
| 26 | ‘ We take interesting wines and price them at what we think they 're worth . |
| 27 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 28 | The airlines , facing their fourth successive year in the red , are urging the EC to drop plans to lower maximum noise levels and nitrogen oxide emissions , arguing that they could increase operating costs , reduce the resale value of operators ' fleets and put them at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals . |
| 29 | She lifted the bottle and glasses and slammed them at him . |
| 30 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |