Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 32 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 33 | Robyn swore and flung herself at the stove , trying to scrape what was left of the bacon away from the bottom of the pan . |
| 34 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 35 | Alex attended a similar establishment for boys ten miles away and visited her at every weekend exeat . |
| 36 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 37 | The Labour administration approved the scheme wholeheartedly in 1986 , and used it at a public inquiry to try to oppose the imposition of more A-road architecture on the site approved by the previous Tory administration . |
| 38 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 39 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 40 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 41 | I walked round the walled field and found myself at the edge of a tinkers ' camp . |
| 42 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 43 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
| 44 | He turned the corner , and found himself at the front of the house , which had a mountingblock , well chalked . |
| 45 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 46 | The lorry driver , a relief worker from ISC Chemicals in Bristol , came on the wrong day and found nobody at the plant . |
| 47 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |
| 48 | His poor mother lacked her husband 's capacity for discipline , and found herself at the mercy of her headstrong son . |
| 49 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 50 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 51 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 52 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 53 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 54 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 55 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 56 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 57 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 58 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 59 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 60 | which is burnt off when the whole thing gets fired in the kiln , so what will have to happen is the , your pots you 've done so far , once they 're thoroughly dried and go into the kiln , they 're fired at a high temperature and then they 'll come out this bit fired you 'll then separate them with oxide pastes , dip them into glaze , which I 'll explain in a minute , and re-fire them at a higher temperature , the glazed would |