Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bedtime — you look as if you 'll fall asleep where you sit at any moment . |
| 2 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 3 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 4 | His biographer attributes the protracted proceedings there to Hamo 's unwillingness to bribe the cardinals ( although it is clear that he retained at least Cardinal William Testa at the curia ) , as well as to the proliferation of other candidates with royal support . |
| 5 | He made it clear that he stayed at La Tour Monchauzet because the vines needed him — and because he was sure that one day — somehow — Isabelle would return to him , and he had to be here — waiting . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , the Report makes clear that it aims at much more . |
| 7 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 8 | Yeah but , she did n't say these are all wrong once I look at |
| 9 | That there 's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness . |
| 10 | He goes well I was playing with your chicken like this and it spat at me , so I bit its head off , clamped its eggs and set fire to its nest ! |
| 11 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 12 | How this is done relatively to the subject and the grades will be clear if we look at some of the grade criteria for history , published in 1985 . |
| 13 | They product five superb maps of the reef , free if you call at their offices near the quay . |
| 14 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 15 | Be careful if you stay at this level for long . |
| 16 | sixty-four And I giggled at Problem Page |
| 17 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 18 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 19 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 20 | Afraid that at any moment someone would shout ‘ Grab her ! ’ and drag her off to some unspecified yet ineluctable torment , she forced herself at least to look calm while she sat at the console on the dais . |
| 21 | Nor is the situation any different when we look at the trial-and-error component of the behaviour by which bees learn to harvest flower species efficiently . |
| 22 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 23 | Travis 's eyes were gleaming with mischief , though his face was grave when he looked at Paige . |
| 24 | It was clear when we arrived at Heathrow airport that security was very tight . |
| 25 | The answer , I think , is quite clear when you look at the definition again , but it is not necessarily clear at first reading . |
| 26 | Just how consistent it is with the prevailing relationship of disabled people to our able-bodied society comes clear when you look at some of the many questions which can be raised . |
| 27 | It do n't look very clear when you look at it , but the sun and that it was it were n't half hot that day . |
| 28 | And I 'm not quite sure why Age Concern , which has had this for I think at least twenty years for their Christmas Carols , which is not included . |
| 29 | I of course has to invent this ceremony and I did it in Latin as they do at Oxford |
| 30 | However , with social feeling about child sexuality running high as it does at present , we may be well advised to keep quiet about it in public ; while , if we ourselves feel guilt as to our own emotions in any such case , a knowledgeable and understanding senior or colleague may be able to help us — otherwise we would be well-advised to hand the case on to someone else . |