Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 2 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 3 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 4 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 5 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 6 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 7 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 8 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 9 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 10 | A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere . |
| 11 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
| 12 | Some of them aid the deception by raising their tails and wagging them at the approaching attacker , while keeping the rest of the body still . |
| 13 | It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do . |
| 14 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 15 | the sad news for golfers is that you 've a better chance of watching the sport than playing it at the Oxfordshire club … membership is being limited to 750 and the joining fee is twenty five thousand pounds … |
| 16 | Like someone in a trance , she gazed at the clasp that fastened it at the throat . |
| 17 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
| 18 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 19 | On present thinking , it would be more logical to treat it as revision and to do it at the later stage . |
| 20 | I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's . |
| 21 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 22 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 23 | ‘ When we 're ready to leave I 'll go to the clinic , get my passport out of the desk and meet you at the airport . |
| 24 | In Chicago on June 17 she attacked those attempting " to create a new artificial state by taking powers away from national states and concentrating them at the centre " . |
| 25 | And now she did what she had promised herself she would do , and lifted her foot and aimed it at the nun 's shin . |
| 26 | Thirdly , the model suggests one way of accounting for the peculiar nature of mathematics , computing and language , as the disciplines which constitute our stances in and towards the world , and for the way they relate to other disciplines , both servicing them at a mundane level and pervading them at a profound level . |
| 27 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 28 | She wrapped up warmly , winding a scarf round her neck , crossing it over her chest and pinning it at the back , as her mother had done in her childhood . |
| 29 | They revel in their bloodlust and gratify it at every opportunity . |
| 30 | Because the high power electron beam would damage the magnets , a magnetic transport system ( not shown ) injects the beam into the wiggler and removes it at the exit . |