Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does it rankle and jar or do we feel at home with the sound ? |
| 2 | Was she raped by James Hepburn , earl of Bothwell , and forced to marry him , or did she connive at her own abduction ? |
| 3 | Does the spider begin in the centre and move outwards down the spiral , or does it begin at the outside and work inwards ? |
| 4 | She did n't move when she heard Pascoe winding the tape back , nor did she look at him . |
| 5 | She did n't respond , nor did she look at him . |
| 6 | Nor did I shout at it . |
| 7 | This biography is not merely content to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Dickens ( interesting fact : Dickens spoke with a slight ‘ metallic burr ’ in his voice ) ; nor does it stop at telling you everything you never wanted to know about Dickens ( uninteresting fact : there were white Christmases for the first eight years of Dickens ' life ) ; it goes so far , as with that unidentified novel , as to let you know when it can not tell you something . |
| 8 | In the dressing room before kick-off , Ian wo n't need anyone to dangle pieces of raw meat in front of him and make him strain at the leash because he 'll be bursting to get stuck into the Turks more than anyone . |
| 9 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 10 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 11 | So Malcolm went down Club Row market and bought us a cat and the most ridiculously horrible food — tins of sardines and those disgusting tinned plum tomatoes they used to try and make you eat at school . |
| 12 | There was a tone in his voice that Breeze had never heard before — a tone that startled her , and made her look at him with wide , bewildered eyes . |
| 13 | When she turned her head away he captured her face between strong hands and made her look at him . |
| 14 | Bending down , he stared into her face , his long fingers strangely gentle as he cupped her cheek and made her look at him . |
| 15 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 16 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 17 | He admits the scheme cramped his dress sense and made him sweat at official functions , but he hopes he has given the people of Hawick ‘ a sense of purpose , pride and awareness of the quality of world-class knitwear they produce ’ . |
| 18 | I took his shoulders and made him look at me . |
| 19 | He held the mutilated carving close before Harry 's face and made him look at it . |
| 20 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
| 21 | They fought , and ran , and stood to fight again , tiring , separated , driven now like hunted hares , until Isambard called his men back at the brook and let them rest at last . |
| 22 | We have to give them the ball out wide and let them get at Southend 's back four . ’ |
| 23 | Today I asked him to bind me and gag me and let me sit at the foot of the cellar steps with the door out open . |
| 24 | Rutherford cites Lawrence 's own remark in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom to the effect that this identification ‘ quitted me of my English self , and let me look at the West and its conventions with new eyes : they destroyed it all for me ’ . |
| 25 | Fetch me a silver piece , and let me look at it . ’ |
| 26 | Well come and let me look at them . |
| 27 | Please talk to your class members and let us know at the March QT DAY if you feel there would be support for the idea . |
| 28 | If I if I do n't know the answer I 'll find out in the interim period and let you know at the end of the session . |
| 29 | He seems to be playing really well at the moment and to let him go at this stage would be killing shooting ourselves in the foot . |
| 30 | It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time . |