Example sentences of "[adv] at [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either he could wait until the pod splashed down at which point it would start to sink , and if the water was deep enough and he had difficulty in escaping from the safety envelope , or became entangled with the chute , he might drown before he was able to struggle to the surface — or else he could blow the hatch prior to landing , risking being either injured or knocked unconscious during an unprotected impact . |
| 2 | He whittles away at what troubles him , trying to absorb unwelcome thoughts . |
| 3 | But something in the way Chambers kept glancing sidelong at her kept her on her guard . |
| 4 | I was pissed off at them leaving me like that because I had hardly any other friends in Leeds . |
| 5 | Not only could he find no space to put even one foot , but whenever he hesitated , hands reached up at him beckoning him to buy . |
| 6 | As I said I 'm , I 'm , I got them out at I think it were twenty one ninety nine or were it twenty five ninety nine ? they were twenty one ninety nine or twenty five ninety now , I ca n't remember off the cuff . |
| 7 | You were asking it then , you look out at us asking it now . |
| 8 | Moving back to the bridge , she halted for a moment to stare down at the sluggish water , and the wavering reflection thrown back at her made her feel like weeping forever . |
| 9 | The sound of her repeating a line back at him drove him mad . |
| 10 | Well at I worked I worked on then until I was se seventeen . |
| 11 | He loved the sound of her and was always on at me to have her round for tea . |