Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 2 | We flew above the skeletal radio mast and I stared down at the row of huge houses . |
| 3 | My wife is a business woman with two shops and I came out at the height of the rag trade jamborees . |
| 4 | I went round all the hospitals in Edinburgh and Leith all the doctors surgeries and there was nowhere and I ended up at the the women 's unit in Edinburgh City Chambers and I got help from the women 's unit and er from there we started a pressure group to get more literature to people , you know to get them into doctor 's surgeries so as they would know what to do , what to expect . |
| 5 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 6 | Bessie was busy rolling out pastry for the meat pies and she looked up at the young nurse . |
| 7 | The desperate woman 's eyes sparkled and she looked up at the crafty totter with new interest . |
| 8 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
| 9 | The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual . |
| 10 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
| 11 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 12 | Maggie 's eyes are long and wide like certain nuts , and they turn up at the ends like maidens from Disney . |
| 13 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |
| 14 | at the back like their bob 's there and they go up at the back . |
| 15 | And then erm Cathy taking Dessy for and and her looking up at the Dessy 's head . |
| 16 | We were delighted with his debut over fences when he beat Forest Sun in a hot novice contest at Worcester and he followed up at the same course on Wednesday . |
| 17 | The jolt rattled his ribs and he breathed in at the same moment as his head crashed through the surface , like a seal in the surf . |
| 18 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 19 | Only his rash brother , the Lord Edward , forced him to it , ’ and he glanced over at the Earl of Carrick , the said Lord Edward Bruce 's second son , who had now deemed it judicious to desert the Balliol cause . |
| 20 | ‘ Have I ? ’ and he stared down at the letters . |
| 21 | As he stared down at his half-empty glass Billy became aware of Freddie watching him closely and he looked up at the schemer suddenly , fixing him with a cold stare . |
| 22 | But already the noise was diminishing , the violence of the anger subsiding as rapidly as it had built up , and he looked back at the audience to see people taking their places again , Gerrard and the earphoned men in shirtsleeves moving quickly and purposefully among them , urging them into seats . |
| 23 | A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach . |
| 24 | And he landed out at the Dardanelles , and here they discovered his age he was away near , he was fif about fifty six or something or fifty eight or something and he was out there in the Dar and they packed him straight back home but oh boy he could tell you the stories about America . |
| 25 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 26 | It 's almost sad , and it goes up at the end . |
| 27 | down and there 's a path goes along and it comes , it goes under the road bridge and it comes out at the foot bridge and it runs next to it |