Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The whole time since I heard that Walter would be released unconditionally I have been wondering how things will work with him being allowed out at night and to talk to whoever he wishes and me sitting at home in the evenings , gagged . ’ |
| 2 | sixty-four And I giggled at Problem Page |
| 3 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 4 | At breakfast , I had been given freshly home-made bread , and I felt at peace with the world . |
| 5 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 6 | A late shower of snow in spring , and I smiled at childhood memories . |
| 7 | I think you 've got to do something drastic , at the end of last year a considerable number of working parties and committees were actually reduced or eliminated , and I look at education and I look at the sub- committees of education , they 've all been replaced by working parties now that meet more and more regularly . |
| 8 | Ordinary psychology only takes the mind and its working at surface value . |
| 9 | At Camberwell Bobby Hunt formed the Bob Hunt 's Ragtime Band ( Bobby on trumpet , Oska on trombone , Monty Sunshine on clarinet , Terry Arthurs on piano and Denis ( ‘ Pip ’ ) Piper on a one-string bass made out of a wooden box and a broomhandle ) and which rehearsed at lunchtime in the pottery room , Minton helping some of its members to buy their instruments . |
| 10 | I tell you what it was , it was Samsung , if you 've a little bit of tape and you end at beginning and you want it , well say you wanted to tape to test a little bit say off telly or |
| 11 | A woman with a brush of close-cut grey hair sat with her sewing close to the fire and a cat rested on her lap , and she looked at Millet with fear and seemed to warn her husband that this was an intruder . |
| 12 | She too had heard rumours , the telephones from shop to shop must have been red hot , and she looked at Rose with speculation . |
| 13 | It was all but won and she felt at peace . |
| 14 | The smell of them lies on my stomach now , ’ and she glared at Midnight . |
| 15 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 16 | At first there was no top nor bottom to this universe of shining love and she floated at peace in its centre , gazing at infinity . |
| 17 | It was still empty and she wandered at will around the main hall , seeing only those involved in administration moving about . |
| 18 | She would scream if anyone came near her left arm , and she cried at night , begging for painkillers . |
| 19 | Relationships , similar figures , now we we looked at that , and we looked at scale , erm , and I think last time we were looking at things like though , not too long ago we were looking at price of council paper and this sort of stuff , which one shall we buy ? |
| 20 | Russian tanks were in Hungary in 1956 and we prayed at school for the dying , who were not Russian . |
| 21 | We can not bear emotion in public , and we look at grief as pathological or a sign of emotional instability . |
| 22 | As they arrived at the corner , four men walked up to them , and one pointed at Dad . |
| 23 | Another problem , and one discussed at length by Wittgenstein in BB and PI , is that definitions of the lexicographical sort have only limited relevance . |
| 24 | Much later that night , when the storm had died down and they lay at rest in each other 's arms , on the verge of sleep at last , Leonora said very quietly , ‘ Penry . ’ |
| 25 | They had every man his mark , and they loosed at leisure ; not at the horses — good horses never came amiss , and certainly never were wasted — but at the men . |
| 26 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |
| 27 | The attendant 's smile faded rapidly and he looked at Donna with narrowed eyes . |
| 28 | One director used him in Waiting for Godot , and he felt at home in a straight play at last , but unfortunately a critic wrote four hundred words about the Christly nature of the moment when he took his hat off . |
| 29 | And he lunged at Anwar with a carrot that was Lying to hand . |
| 30 | His health began to deteriorate seriously towards the end of 1826 and he died at South Bank 17 February 1827 . |