Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah their their funding tends to be they 'll they 'll fund something like a production or they 'll say at you know if you put our name up were give you so much or General Portfolio perhaps will will fund a particular show or a series of show 's or say were prepared to put a thousand pounds could you name six shows and we 'll put our name on those show 's when they 're advertised but no company or other Council 's actually prepared to come along and say were prepared to put money on a regular basis . |
| 2 | I 'm afraid I have to suspend my perishables , like bread , cheese , butter and vegetables , from the ceiling in plastic bags or they would get at them . |
| 3 | When I think that up until last night I was even hoping that I might look at you and wonder what it had all been about — that I 'd feel nothing ! |
| 4 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 5 | And then you just draw it out again so that someone could look at it and they could see the energy changes in front . |
| 6 | It can be a fairly minor loss , like social status or face — some people suffer agonies for fear that someone will laugh at them or sneer at their taste or intelligence , for example . |
| 7 | Ballantyne 's description is the first one written , so I will look at it first . |
| 8 | She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose . |
| 9 | Well Mary said if I thought for a minute that she would stick at it , I would pay for her but |
| 10 | Marc 's beautiful bronze limbs weighted her down , and she squirmed surreptitiously without waking him in order to change her position so that she could look at him properly . |
| 11 | This has the advantages that the soakaway can be cleaned out when necessary and that you can get at it should anything go wrong . |
| 12 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 13 | Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately . |
| 14 | There was a girl called Carmen , she was the queen Reject , she just let me hang around with them so she could sneer at me for being a moony . |
| 15 | Make a list on a separate sheet of paper of the flabby , vague , unfocused parts , so you can look at them out of context . |
| 16 | Movements happen singly , so you can look at them : flurries of waste paper on empty pavements , a sudden darting cat , a lone car humming its mantra . |
| 17 | A pamphlet that is equally powerful is one called Abbey 's Number One for Claims Experience , but unfortunately we do n't have any other copies at the moment , so I will leave one on the side so you can look at it . |
| 18 | What I was if any other matter comes into light before it comes in we do n't do anything about it and that 's why I would oppose that because of this because one it 's not necessary to move something that we would look at it and sit back and after the inspector reports . |
| 19 | He says he did think of whipping up and running them down , but it would have been useless , they could shoot far faster than we could drive at them . |
| 20 | Erm well yours is different so we 'll look at yours in a minute . |
| 21 | And I would urge the panel to send out their proposed leaflet to the ministers in various areas where the educational standards are not very high that they may look at them and put forward suggestions so that the leaflet that eventually comes out will be understood by the whole of our people and not just by the most educated . |
| 22 | ‘ So they can laugh at us when we fall flat on our noses . |
| 23 | She twisted the John Wainfleet page round so they could look at it together . |
| 24 | He twisted in his chair so that he could look at her , and she leaned down and kissed his forehead . |
| 25 | Her grip began to slacken and he kicked a little harder , perhaps sensing a reprieve , and he managed to turn his head around so that he could look at her . |
| 26 | Rory held his collar out so that he could look at it . |
| 27 | I was scared that he 'd laugh at me ! ’ |
| 28 | He leaned over and opened the passenger door so he could yell at me . |
| 29 | Nobody and nothing could get at them . |
| 30 | ‘ Bring the book into the kitchen and I 'll look at it while you make me a cup of coffee . ’ |