Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | I look at Scottish-born players first but they are thin on the ground in that position . ’ |
| 7 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
| 8 | ‘ I gave myself two years to win promotion when I arrived at Ayresome Park last summer . |
| 9 | I glanced at Lili thinking that she must know and would somehow reveal what was disturbing him . |
| 10 | But if it came to an argument — well , I looked at Rich and I could n't help myself . |
| 11 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Most of my splicing I did at random , automatically . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | I work at High House Farm Riding Stables . |
| 19 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 20 | And that I , I would n't be adverse , I know it means you know you , you , if you put s some extra into one thing you 've got to take it away from somewhere else , but I , I , I would be quite happy to see them look at special needs and whether we actually need even more careers officer time for that . |
| 21 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |
| 22 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 23 | She gazed at little Ivan , bent down to kiss him . |
| 24 | She looks at national and local policies for mitigating the educational effects of gender and ethnic differences . |
| 25 | Situating herself within the Anglo-Saxon analytic tradition , she looks at different conceptions of philosophy , its content and methods . |
| 26 | She heard the shaken sigh that was torn from him as he brought her body up against the length of his , and the urge to go on fighting him faded as she grasped at fresh knowledge , accepting the fact that this was entirely mutual . |
| 27 | Trained by Richard Hannon , Lemon Souffle has n't run since she scored at scintillating victory in the Cherry Hinton Stakes at Newmarket in July . |
| 28 | like those certain games that you played at certain seasons of the year . |
| 29 | Oh be able to practise what she preaches at long last . |
| 30 | Are you looking at personal and social education , if I could call it that ? |