Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 3 | People like ex-British Airways captain Derek Ellis whom I met at Kerikeri airfield . |
| 4 | I tried at regular intervals throughout the night and first thing this morning . |
| 5 | When I get tired I stop at green lights — I 'm always doing that . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've also found ourselves looking at other aspects , like eldercare , which is increasingly becoming a problem for people who work . |
| 7 | I look at Scottish-born players first but they are thin on the ground in that position . ’ |
| 8 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
| 9 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 10 | I glanced at Lili thinking that she must know and would somehow reveal what was disturbing him . |
| 11 | But if it came to an argument — well , I looked at Rich and I could n't help myself . |
| 12 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 13 | Well I think at central level they have a letter do n't they , because from the reports I 've read local authorities exercise discretionary powers on the amount of Poll Tax to be charged on empty farm dwellings . |
| 14 | I 've got a calendar from the day I start shooting , and I start crossing off the days the way I did at high school , waiting for summer vacation to begin . ’ |
| 15 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 16 | I take at random an ELT book from my shelf ( Success with English , 1 , Ch 12 ) in which Martin and Jillian are sticking photographs in an album . |
| 17 | Complexes of actinomycin with a radiolabelled DNA fragment ( tyr T ) were dissociated by addition of a large excess of unlabelled calf thymus DNA and the mixture subjected to DNase I footprinting at subsequent intervals . |
| 18 | Tony Brough ( the Principal ) and I sat at High Table , but it was very democratic because the students also took it in turns to sit at High Table — and to be invited to the Principal 's office for pre-dinner drinks ! |
| 19 | I work at High House Farm Riding Stables . |
| 20 | This happened on both my Brother machines , the 950i and the 836 , which sit at right angles to one another in the same room . |
| 21 | On a ridge with fine prospects over Edinburgh , the Pentlands and the Firth of Forth are outcrops and boulders with the stylized incisions of circles , cup shapes and concentric grooves which appear at ritual sites in many countries from Ireland to India , and in especially large numbers in Scotland . |
| 22 | Public marches permit the display of one 's symbols : the flags , the banners , the open Bible , and , on occasions , the uniforms which hint at potential violence . |
| 23 | Sources within the Stock Exchange confirmed yesterday that the sudden pre-bid surge in the traded options market is being examined by an insider dealing investigation team which looks at suspicious activity ahead of the release of price-sensitive information . |
| 24 | Brightness shares the pool with two dolphins , and another Beluga whale , called Yegor , which arrived at Laspi Bay 10 days ago , from the dolphinarium in Novorossysk , Russia . |
| 25 | I refer especially to the fact that Mr. Thorpe had access to two general practitioners and thus to two separate decision-making processes , which arrived at different conclusions . |
| 26 | Studies which look at individual factors , however , often fail to show substantial effects and sometimes do not put the importance of that factor into true perspective . |
| 27 | The first attack , which happened at Mithian Downs , was discovered on Saturday evening , when the horse suffered a wound which appeared to have been made with a sharp instrument . |
| 28 | Mimms is now with his ninth League club , a nomadic journey which began at lowly Halifax , reached a dead-end as Neville Southall 's understudy at Everton and hit its nadir at Tottenham . |
| 29 | Although no definite links have yet been discovered between the first mechanical clocks and earlier geared astronomical models and automata , the way in which a surviving late fourteenth-century clock such as that of Wells Cathedral displays the phases of the moon and figures which emerge at successive hours suggests that such clocks were the product of a continuing tradition from the distant past . |
| 30 | Academics are intertwined in networks which operate at different administrative levels , from the department to the institution itself . |