Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 2 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 3 | The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy . |
| 4 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 5 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
| 6 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 7 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 8 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 9 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
| 10 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 11 | Nikos smiled and said something softly in Greek , and for some reason Lindsey found herself blushing at the sudden contact of Niall 's hand against her arm , but she could n't interpret the look he gave her as they were ushered towards one of the few empty tables overlooking the harbour . |
| 12 | Jessamy found herself staring at the powerful set of his shoulders , and remembered all too clearly that the aura of power was n't just an illusion . |
| 13 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 14 | And she found herself smiling at the stark contrast between the two figures — the small passive figure of the elderly servant and the dynamic , vivid figure of the dark-haired man . |
| 15 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 16 | Even with regard to this episode Margaret showed a sisterly loyalty : I am told that when she and Ivy found themselves staying at the same hotel as Cecilia Ady , Eleanor Jourdain 's chief opponent , ‘ there was a marked coldness ’ . |
| 17 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 18 | –One would show them falling at the usual speed and hear the laughs . ’ |
| 19 | The only thing I could do I mean at the same time I 'm saying O K I 'll go in to do it this way , would be to actually say , sod this for a lark , instead of doing erm totally private thing , gon na set up a private limited company to issue cheques . |
| 20 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 21 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 22 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 23 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 24 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 25 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 26 | Let us glance at a familiar passage of Scripture : 2 Corinthians 5.16–21 . |
| 27 | Let us look at a real two-dimensional problem instead . |
| 28 | Let us look at a simple example . |
| 29 | Before going on to consider more problematic aspects of semantic constituency , let us look at a few more examples of the recurrent semantic contrast test in action . |
| 30 | Let us look at a few Elizabethan towns in more detail , starting with York , the secular and ecclesiastical capital of Northern England , a county town and large commercial centre . |