Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 2 | The killer must have been kneeling there , pistol at the ready , and as Francis emerged he or she had fired at a range of a few inches . |
| 3 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 4 | But you start , or we like to start at the front door of what we call . |
| 5 | ‘ We think the drain cover must have been removed by accident by a farm machine and no-one had realised at the time , ’ |
| 6 | Madame always had a little stage set up there at the end , and I remember thinking at the time , well , seven nights in a week and seven different acts , it 's one way of dealing with the situation . |
| 7 | because I think er Mr 's motion is erm , similar to er Rosie 's erm except that , I mean I think what we 're actually saying is that we do actually have a number of waste planning sort of policy panel , er and this is something look , needs to be looked at in , in some detail , erm and if we just do it via a sort of straight report to the Environment Committee and I mean look at the sort of agenda we 've got today er you know how much time can we spend on the details so I mean I hope the Liberal Democrats would accept that erm yes it will obviously come to the Environment Committee eventually er but that it actually should go to the Waste Planning to the Policy panel and other bits no doubt to the Waste Disposal sort of Sub Committee for this is the policy er committee of course . |
| 8 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 9 | This morning they 're different again down there cos I 've been down there and I 've looked at the situation erm and I 've had a word with the lads there and I will try and alter it a little bit more . |
| 10 | My father had initially encouraged my interest in the stock market and I had jumped at the chance of a part-time job in the City . |
| 11 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 12 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 13 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 14 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 16 | ‘ Do off his helmet , quickly , ’ said Hotspur , tearing off his gauntlets and himself stooping to fumble at the mail gorget , ‘ he 's breathing blood ! ’ |
| 17 | Erm and you need to look at the big picture . |
| 18 | And you need to look at the policies as a whole rather than individually . |
| 19 | All spreadsheets are currently static , in the sense that if you 've got a set of rows and columns and you want to look at the information in a different way , you have to move rows and columns of data around , change formulas — in fact rebuild the entire structure of the model . |
| 20 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 21 | The women 's ability to contribute towards the cost is assessed and she needs to know at the outset what she will be asked to pay . |
| 22 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 23 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 24 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 25 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 26 | Exactly and er we are buying er a two seat version of this aeroplane er our two seat version is aimed primarily at operational training but er we have examined er time and again whether we believe the er the integration of the avionics which is possible in this aeroplane and which is planned for this aeroplane er is going to be able to reduce the pilot work load to such an extent that one man can comfortably do the job and we have arrived at the conclusion that he most certainly can . |
| 27 | ‘ And we have to look at the movements of the BNP and what they are doing . |
| 28 | Erm , yes , as you know I 'm a member of the Essex traffic group and we did state at the time there will be no looking into or no pulling down of any type of property or building , yeah , but it , erm the Council went ahead and looked at Wordsworth Road |
| 29 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 30 | I think the things that have come out of this for me er from Councillor actually is that it would be unlikely that we , we or would be allocating that plan today and I think the amount of traffic has increased through the town centre would make it foolish and one does wonder at the wisdom if all the development went along which had to be serviced then through er Street and through the town centre in to the main areas of employment that happened years ago . |