Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man opposite her threw down his Reveille at the same moment , and their eyes met . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , looking over my shoulder at the open front door . |
| 3 | She looked over her shoulder at the other two , smiling archly . |
| 4 | Warily Fran glanced over her shoulder at the two men . |
| 5 | It freed scholars to pursue their researches without having to look over their shoulders at the Holy Office . |
| 6 | I peered over his shoulder at the spidery script . |
| 7 | He gestured over his shoulder at the other members of the golfing Press . |
| 8 | Richie glanced over his shoulder at the young PC pacing behind them . |
| 9 | Finally , the Churchill patience snapped and , peering over his glasses at the hapless Opposition MP , he retorted : ‘ I am grateful for the opportunity to remind the Honourable Member for Dewsbury what a dirty dog does to a paling . ’ |
| 10 | Patrick , crouched over his books at the other end of the table , never asked his advice ; but then Patrick had always been faintly hostile and jealous of a masculine encroachment on a territory that had been his alone since the departure of the two eldest boys . |
| 11 | This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’ |
| 12 | Many charts gave details only to the low-water , while maps cut off their contours at the high-water mark . |
| 13 | Julia , who called off their wedding at the last minute a year ago , was recently in Ireland with new lover Jason Patric . |
| 14 | Acer America Corporation , which really wants to be a player in the reconstituted ‘ minicomputer ’ market , will be busy this week shoring up its defences at the low end . |
| 15 | Some police make quite a tidy income ringing up their contacts at the bottom end of Fleet Street whenever they have a customer of public interest . |
| 16 | Tennant and his girlfriend , Mandy Simpson , 21 , are not headed for the discos but to top up their tans at the Electric Beach instant tan centre . |
| 17 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , speaking on BBC 's The World This Weekend , said : ‘ On past form a great many members are looking to make up their minds at the last moment . |
| 18 | will he or wo n't he … can they or ca n't they … this weekend Nigel Mansell and the Williams team are due to make up their minds at the Italian Grand Prix … that 's where Mark Kiff starts his action roundup |
| 19 | East Suffolk at university because a lot of erm the more well to do parents would erm would probably turn up their noses at the small amount of |
| 20 | Sign he did , giving up his past at the Old Sun . |
| 21 | He screwed up his face at the appalling stench but made no move to draw back . |
| 22 | Angus the chef was cleaning up his realm at the far end of the long hot kitchen and Simone was unpacking fat beef sandwiches which we all ate standing up while working . |
| 23 | The Old and New Courts described , SB 31 ; ‘ hold up his hand at the Old Bailey ’ , i.e. to plead guilty . |
| 24 | And under his guidance countless little boys had learned how to set out their chess-men at the weekly meetings of the Chess Club . |
| 25 | Jess stuck out her tongue at the broad back and said in demure tones : ‘ No , but her is … no offence meant . ’ |
| 26 | In customs , the Eladeldi had drawn back their lips at the sedated parrot , but all the processing was in order , and Marco had hustled them through . |
| 27 | In ( 38 ) below one understands that the support of the finite verb carried out his helping at the same time as the support of the infinitive was addressing the letters , whence the meaning of being instrumental in the realization of this action . |
| 28 | resources should be allocated to the subordinate to enable him to carry out his tasks at the expected level of performance , and authority should be delegated to enable the subordinate to do this job ; and |
| 29 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |