Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits at a tea table with MR . |
| 2 | Her claims to be heard are based on her spiritual topic matter and the historical accident that she writes at a time when she believes more has been revealed about the divine and therefore she possesses ‘ more information ’ than previously . |
| 3 | Be careful when she swats at a fly or a spider , she may swat you by mistake . |
| 4 | When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face . |
| 5 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 6 | It stands at a point where firm ground lies close to the river Derwent , and from olden times has been the site of an important river crossing , first by ferry , later by bridge . |
| 7 | It looks at a lesson as a sequence of natural units of teaching and learning . |
| 8 | In other words , if we choose coordinates so that the linearised flow near the origin takes the form we can use these equations to work out the point on the side of B where a trajectory emerges from B if it starts at a point on the top face of B. ( We assume that the box B is a cube with faces which are part of the planes . |
| 9 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard to a girl called Rose he meets at a party , as they sit on the stairs around two in the morning , talking seriously , her dark eyes looking up seriously into his , ‘ I 'm the best mountain-designer in the universe . |
| 11 | The importance of the PPR is that it occurs at a time when the numbers of new susceptible hosts are increasing and so ensures the survival and propagation of the worm species . |
| 12 | As the road leaves Clashnessie Bay , the hamlet of the same name is passed and after a further mile a side road turns off to the right and crosses the bare and windswept peninsula , the Ru Stoer , to a lighthouse where it ends at a parking place for cars . |
| 13 | ‘ Vehicular traffic light signal ’ is defined as follows : ‘ Three lights shall be used , one red , one amber and one green … the lamp showing the amber light shall be capable of showing a steady light or a flashing light such that it flashes at a rate of not less than 70 nor more than 90 flashes per minute etc . |
| 14 | They are undoubtedly right that it has now become clear that the Government will not pay for the expansion it desires at a level which will protect high quality . |
| 15 | He stares at a prance of spray |
| 16 | As he waits at a stop-light somewhere out beyond the freightyards he drums his fingers on the steering wheel and gazes in front of him , thinking . |
| 17 | Like the meeting in London just after the death of Edmund Ironside , it hints at a realisation on Cnut 's part that his rule would to a degree depend on English support . |
| 18 | It performs at a maximum 1.2GFlops and is powerful enough to handle target recognition and other image analysis in real time . |
| 19 | It will charge interest on the cash amounts it advances at a rate similar to that for an overdraft . |
| 20 | He jabs at a picture in an album Shirley has produced : ‘ 4:52:34 — that 's a very slow one . |
| 21 | It moves at a waddle from chance to chance , |
| 22 | It operates at a level of myth . |
| 23 | It operates at a rate of 0.45-litre ( 0.8pt ) per stroke , and will fit in to the standard 2in ( 50mm ) BSP neck of 205-litre ( 45gal ) barrels . |
| 24 | It runs at a profit and is one of the most self contained parts of the British Rail Network . |
| 25 | When a colour-blind man wants to become a truck driver , he fails at a colour test : his DNA does not need to be tested . |
| 26 | But when Adam does emerge , he works at a roadside diner , where he 's smitten with waitress Caroline ( 1993 Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh yes — only I 've got to catch the last bus home and it leaves at a quarter to eleven … ’ |
| 28 | It begins at a beginning and thus promises the whole of a life . " |
| 29 | The profits of a manufacturing company are achieved by selling the goods it makes at a price in excess of its costs . |
| 30 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |