Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
| 32 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 33 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
| 34 | Dada took the book from her and looked at the first page . |
| 35 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 36 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |
| 37 | He had moved past her and stood at the foot of a soaring staircase , hands on his hips . |
| 38 | Bill Hamilton smiled across the room at her and pointed at a side table where drinks and appetising titbits were laid out . |
| 39 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 40 | Beinn Alligin is the third of the great Torridon giants and more amenable than its fellows , and more honest , the whole effort of climbing to the summit ridge , traversing it and descending at the far end to return down the corrie being assessed at a glance , although probably under-estimated . |
| 41 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
| 42 | He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside . |
| 43 | The Aldershot method erm because it showing you how you broke that subject down allows you to erm introduce it expand on it and summarise at the end . |
| 44 | But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho . |
| 45 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
| 46 | The management could do nothing but smile at the incident . |
| 47 | I did n't notice it myself but looking at the people at school you think how babyish . |
| 48 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 49 | He moved between us and looked at the bowls of deep colour , and little puffs of red and yellow dotted about the draining-board to dry . |