Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa has given special permission for the godparents and me to stand inside at the Jonah window , while he does the immersion outside . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 3 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 4 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 5 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 6 | I mean even at the risk of probably er the other suppliers making a bit more than us if it means that . |
| 7 | Er but I mean basically at the end of the day , I mean you have to think about to what extent you can increase your sales . |
| 8 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 9 | The kite had a tail of twisted magazine-pages — Guns and Ammo , which I got regularly at the time . |
| 10 | Despite its limitations and difficulties , dowsing was one of the sources of inspiration for the Dragon Project , which I mentioned briefly at the beginning of the last chapter . |
| 11 | But I am not so sure that I should have recognised what I recognised unconsciously at the time of writing : that I was in a state of helplessness , the helplessness of being a non-person . |
| 12 | ‘ I came here at the beginning of the week thinking that this was my last tournament for the year , maybe forever , ’ Evert said . |
| 13 | I came here at the instigation of your letter , believing myself to have secured a position . |
| 14 | I groan inwardly at the prospect of a night playing Happy Families with a bunch of desk-jockeys and number-crunchers . |
| 15 | Having recently had a pacemaker installed I have nothing but praise for the treatment I received both at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton and the Freeman in Newcastle ( a Trust hospital ) . |
| 16 | I look carefully at the dead fly still gracefully adorning the corner of the screen . |
| 17 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 18 | No , I just came over fields , I went along and followed a dyke , I turned left at the cafe , and then followed the first I saw going up . |
| 19 | Still , I did n't risk a second run and instead I turned left at the end and found myself back on Plumstead Road . |
| 20 | it would normally , if I recall correctly at the time , there would normally been a memorandum listing new charges for each development |
| 21 | If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive , it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine , and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings , far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission . |
| 22 | I stare again at the saddlebag , feeling sick . |
| 23 | I stare glumly at the coinbox . |
| 24 | Every time that I passed the spot , over the next year or two , I glanced quickly at the building , then scooted past . |
| 25 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 26 | And it was one of the critici criticisms that came out of the er I think it was one of the annual general meetings non-executive directors in there to oversee er basically as another control against Mister himself I suppose really at the end of the day . |
| 27 | I smile encouragingly at the hulk who has his twelvebore pressed against my breast . |
| 28 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 29 | I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent . |
| 30 | The other soldiers had wives and families to go to , but I felt slightly at a loss away from the TA . |