Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
| 2 | The report on the projected sales for the next quarter , he asked for it at the last meeting , it 's okay . |
| 3 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
| 4 | ‘ Go and dump your shopping quickly and I 'll wait for you at the first bridge , ’ he suggested , indicating the expanse of parkland their building overlooked . |
| 5 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 6 | Nine others are appearing with him at the commital proceedings . |
| 7 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 8 | And naturally his only means of getting in touch would be to write to her at the one address he knew : Elise 's cottage . |
| 9 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 10 | It is a method of RE which focuses on pupils ' own capacity to relate to themselves at a deeper level — to their own authentic feelings and insights . |
| 11 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 12 | This information will be considered by ourselves at the key features review and due diligence stages . |
| 13 | Cup in hand , she was about to sit opposite him at the small kitchen table , but the unwelcoming look in his deep blue eyes changed her mind , and she wandered aimlessly through to the living-room . |
| 14 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 15 | Ankhu and Nebamun would have it easier , but for the majority of privileged men work was a nominal activity as they laboured more or less intelligently in the upper ranks of the army , the civil service and the priesthood ; most of the graft was done for them at a humbler level . |
| 16 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 17 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 18 | Is that the case and , if so , what can we do about it at an early stage ? |
| 19 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 20 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 21 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 22 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 23 | Negative programming can be general or specific and , unless something is done about it at a later date , its effects can last a lifetime . |
| 24 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 25 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 26 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 27 | In the tract Man 's Mortalitie , published in 1644 , the Leveller Richard Overton expressed his belief in mortalism , the heretical idea that the soul dies with the body at death to be reborn with it at the Second Coming . |
| 28 | Something twisted inside her at the naked emotion that flashed for a moment across his face . |
| 29 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 30 | I played in one at the previous place I worked . |