Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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1 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
2 | Ludo and I hear it at the same moment . |
3 | So that 's se and I want you at the other end . |
4 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
5 | I have grown one and I twist it at the ends ( the moustache too ) . ’ |
6 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
7 | Then the talk turned to the West and I found myself at the centre of questions . |
8 | The scene shifted and I found myself at the head of a stairwell , aware that yet another place might be reached but only by somersaulting over the banister and walking my feet down the opposite wall as one might descend a defile in a crag . |
9 | ‘ I suppose I took the wrong path , ’ he said , ‘ and I found myself at the edge of a cliff . ’ |
10 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
11 | I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing . |
12 | A Primus is a little camping-stove that you fill with paraffin and you light it at the top and then you pump it to get pressure for the flame . |
13 | Once extended her own eye was pressed to the lens of the telescope that was herself ( was it her own eye 's lens she was looking through the wrong way ? ) and she saw herself at the other end . |
14 | His dark eyes met hers as if he felt her surreptitious appraisal , and she found herself at the receiving end of that long , sardonic smile . |
15 | Whether you choose a chateau hotel or stay in stately homes where families take in guests , splendour is the word and we found it at the majestic Chateau de Noirieux in Briollay , Anjou . |
16 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
17 | But he either could n't or would n't understand , and he left it at the back . |
18 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
19 | I 'll go and phone him , put ten P in the phone and he rings me at the phone box . |
20 | And he shook her at the end of each question . |
21 | Luib took the practice sword from him with a nod , and he joined them at the edge of the field . |
22 | That was his word , and it struck me at the time that it was extreme language for a man of his temperament . |
23 | ‘ Because ‘ e 's my mate , and it annoyed me at the time to see ‘ im get ahead of me . ’ |