Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 2 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 3 | So do you want me to call at the 's now ? |
| 4 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 5 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 6 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 7 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 8 | Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side . |
| 9 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 10 | Then he made me look at the windows . |
| 11 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 12 | In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems . |
| 13 | it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold |
| 14 | I mean I think at the end of the day because we 're w going to have to basically in a sense your job I think even though at the moment you 're saying you know fine I 'm not gon na exclude anything , I think it 's actually going to be sort of , to try and eliminate most of this . |
| 15 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 16 | Their comments have been so interesting and helpful in enabling me to arrive at a diet plan perfected for absolute maximum effect . |
| 17 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 18 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 19 | And Sonya 's We are one , we live as one , ’ while it remains authorially bold , has nothing to fear at the hands of readers quick to sniff out dogma . |
| 20 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |
| 21 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 22 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 24 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 25 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 26 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 27 | Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else . |
| 28 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 29 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 30 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |