Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
| 2 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 3 | When he suggested Peter , of course I jumped at the chance — Peter was winning absolutely everything . |
| 4 | This is not to say that I will desert the club I love at the first opportunity . |
| 5 | Outside in the cobbled farmyard I glanced at the side of the barn . |
| 6 | In the lavatory I stared at the mirror . |
| 7 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 8 | Looking back at him , she said , ‘ The only ambition I have at the moment is to survive my eighteen months with G.W. Fashions . |
| 9 | So how could she possibly tell her friend about the almost wild grief she felt at the prolonged absence of her husband ; the deep , stabbing pain in her heart when she remembered their wonderful night of passion ? |
| 10 | What result you want at the end of the day ? |
| 11 | After making the tea she sat at the kitchen table to drink it , and was still sitting there when dawn broke . |
| 12 | so I said could Mike go in and do the fencing you see at the side , to keep the dog out |
| 13 | In this chapter we look at the ways to develop the applications which use the database , including an analysis of data requirements , and in Chapter 7 we look at setting up different external views in the context of different DBMS . |
| 14 | In this chapter we look at the general nature of weak syllables . |
| 15 | Our six case-study schools whose procedures for combating truancy we report at the end , regularly monitored attendance and absentee pupils rates and were alert to ways of keeping disaffected pupils in school . |
| 16 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 17 | In this study we aimed at the investigation of platelet activating factor synthesis in the gastric juice of normal healthy volunteers in vivo , in basal condition , and in response to pentagastrin . |
| 18 | With the end of that accumulatory episode we arrive at the second resultant stratigraphical situation as suggested in " 7 " . |
| 19 | A big difference from the episode we have at the vets each month ! |
| 20 | On the first-floor terrace they sat at the round table while Roman did the honours with gin and tonics . |
| 21 | From trees and undergrowth they fired at the victors again and again , as they swarmed over the wall in twos and threes , then in dozens and scores , and finally in hundreds . |
| 22 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 23 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 24 | MacArthur did not regard him as particularly able and remarked on the disappointment he felt at the failure of Japanese politics to produce outstanding personalities . |
| 25 | When an accomplished actor like ( bridegroom 's name ) realizes he is going to have a speaking part in the wedding ceremony he jumps at the opportunity . |
| 26 | I saw the monster arrive from the marsh he looked at the when I saw him I ran |
| 27 | And yesterday , TACP Design 's practice partner Brian Evans , a former city councillor and conservation work pioneer , showed off the prestigious trophy he received at the RICS Awards 1992 ceremony in London . |
| 28 | Using the trowel she chipped at the ground outside the door , prising cold earth from among the prickly stems and broken bricks , gathering it with her hands and putting it into the bucket . |
| 29 | Sorry , I wanted to make two points , I think there 's a big difference between foresters like yourself and the people who 're actually out there logging , and you know , I have no doubt about the work you do at the Oxford Forestry Institute , and several of your tutors and lecturers have been to talk to us , and Friends of the Earth certainly is calling for sustainable management forestry . |
| 30 | In the village she stopped at the blacksmith 's . |