Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 2 | Having seen and heard him at Buxton , I find it hard to believe claims that he did not solo the South Face of Lhotse : claims , in any case , which Cesen has countered with an explanation . |
| 3 | He picked a newly constructed swatch of samples up from the desk in front of him and chucked it at Antinou , who caught the flopping thing one-handed and proceeded to fondle it familiarly . |
| 4 | Gail ripped up a brochure and chucked it at Tjolle . |
| 5 | If you open it up , if you do get it open , and advertise it at Boddingtons a pound a pint , get them straight to come in . |
| 6 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 7 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 8 | She was at court every time with me , and she came and visited me at Holloway . |
| 9 | Especially now that his grandfather is no longer as robust as he once was , and needs him at Arrancay . ’ |
| 10 | My father used to go and buy them at Lowestoft . |
| 11 | ‘ I further said to [ the defendant ] ‘ You set men to watch her , you trail her and found her at Gloria Chin 's house and there you threatened to kill her with your gun , but she escaped you . |
| 12 | Henry Tudor found that there was still considerable opposition to him becoming King , particularly from ‘ Yorkshire ’ pretenders , who included Margaret of Burgundy , for whom an Oxford tradesman called Simnel , crossed into England from Ireland , in the summer of 1487 , with a force of two thousand German mercenaries , but Henry — who had become King Henry VII , in September 1485 — raised a larger army and defeated them at Newark . |
| 13 | Coleridge 's friend , Thomas de Quincey , wrote his own Gothic novel , Klosterheim , and passed on the infection to James Hogg ( 1770–1835 ) , who , in The Confessions of , a Justified Sinner , borrowed the spectre of the Brocken and installed it at Arthur 's Seat , near Edinburgh . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like to have hundreds and hundreds of dogs one day and show them at Crufts . ’ |
| 15 | In the 1930s Lord Aberconway bought the Mill 's Music House , dismantled and reconstructed it at Bodnant in North Wales . |
| 16 | The goods are sent on by large waggons , and meet us at Loch Crinan ; while the ‘ Cygnet ’ or the ‘ Plover ’ puffs along right merrily , and we sit down to have a quiet look at the bonnie bits of scenery that are everywhere meeting us . |
| 17 | Dunlop rode the Honda which Gawley has had all year and the plan was for Gawley to take over the bike and ride it at Donington . |
| 18 | The official guide starts the walk at Calenzana in the north and ends it at Conca , and most walkers tackle it that way . |
| 19 | There were quite a few noted cheesemakers in Cotherstone at the time , including the Misses Hutchinson and the Hodgson family , and Aunt Hannah also used to make cheeses with the help of my Aunt Mary , who lived in Lartington , and showed them at Eggleston Show . |
| 20 | I 'll take you for a meal and drop you at Ilse 's place afterwards . |
| 21 | He grabbed a sandwich off his plate and threw it at Asik . |
| 22 | Then he picked up a chair and threw it at Detchard 's legs . |
| 23 | Folly grabbed a pillow from behind her and threw it at Luke , then saw his face change with sudden desire as the sheet slipped down to expose her breasts . |
| 24 | The other man picked up the dressing gown lying on the end of the bed and threw it at Connelly . |
| 25 | He looked desperately around for a weapon , picked up a bowl of hot soup and threw it at Edgar , who started screaming . |
| 26 | He seized a brick desperately and threw it at Yussuf . |
| 27 | In January 1869 he travelled to Dresden to attend the local premiere of Meistersinger , whose special place in his affections was unchanged , and on 17 May , now at Basle , he was finally able to accept Wagner 's invitation and visit him at Tribschen , his house near Lucerne in Switzerland . |
| 28 | Why did n't Charles come down and join them at Mother Bunch 's ? |
| 29 | These payments are calculated on 8.75 per cent of the sales value of production from 8.62608 per cent of the Ninian field [ 50 per cent of the Group 's interest in the field ] after deducting Government royalties and operating costs incurred in extracting the oil and conveying and treating it at Sullom Voe . |
| 30 | He took out the fragment of the news-sheet and waved it at Thai . |