Example sentences of "[verb] something at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shouted something at me or at his dogs , I do n't even now know which , and was gone into the night . |
| 2 | He shouted something at Endill but he could n't hear because of the wind and did n't dare move or shout back , frightened he would upset the basket . |
| 3 | Topknot shouted something at his nomes . |
| 4 | A man in the cab leaned out and shouted something at her as the fire engine churned past , but she could n't hear what . |
| 5 | Desmond Fairchild , paddling through the spotlights , his trousers rolled up to his hairy knees , shouted something at her . |
| 6 | Simon 's heavy tread moved about upstairs and his voice shouted something at a maid . |
| 7 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 8 | It is correspondingly harder to find something at which one can point , and say , ‘ This shows you to be wrong ’ . |
| 9 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 10 | The ‘ pure ’ entrepreneur observes the opportunity to sell something at a price higher than that at which he can buy it . |
| 11 | It showed you can achieve something at short notice , provided you 're prepared to drop everything and cover the cost . |
| 12 | Okay well we 're in a really bad situation , I mean we can achieve something at least and perhaps oh perhaps communism does n't work after all , they just seem to be doubting their own beliefs and what they 've read . |
| 13 | Number 60 's wife was shouting something at number 60 's children . |
| 14 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
| 15 | If we can get that , then five or six years down the track we might be producing players who can do something at world level . ’ |
| 16 | The umpires might also have noticed something at some point along the line ! |
| 17 | Fagin , with his sharp , suspicious eyes , would have noticed something at once . |
| 18 | I just thrown something at the erm |
| 19 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 20 | Do not stand on chairs to reach something at ceiling level . |
| 21 | ‘ I think the rise in fascism is disgusting , and I thought the most disgusting thing Morrissey did was when he said it was a National Front skinhead who threw something at him because I did n't see any fascism in the crowd at all . |
| 22 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |
| 23 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 24 | I expect we 've got something at home smaller . |
| 25 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 26 | Remember to put something at the bottom of the downpipe if it discharges over an open gully in order to catch whatever is blocking it , or else you might block the gully or the drains further along . |
| 27 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 28 | Time is appropriate where the child is required to do something at or by a particular time . |
| 29 | People have to be involved in something if they 're going to want to do something at the end . |
| 30 | No matter how Boswell did it physically — and later it will transpire that he wrote some of it in a notebook Johnson gave him ; no matter how he proceeded editorially , whether through a combination of this abbreviated writing , then checking afterwards what was said , and finally choosing — or agreeing — how much of Johnson 's commentary and observation he should release , Boswell achieved something at least as important as a legally accurate record — he created , above everything , the feel of a full account . |