Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is , however , Falstaff himself that lies at the heart of the opera and Colin Rees proved a master of the role .
2 Friar Tuck stirred himself and stared at the Trapper .
3 He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had .
4 ‘ B is for Bell , ’ ' Paul said quietly , nodding to himself and staring at the rusting device .
5 He was the sort of person who might , after much hard study , have finally learnt two phrases from the language of flowers : the gladiolus , which when placed at the centre of a bouquet indicates by the number of its blooms the hour for which the rendezvous is set ; and the petunia , which announces that a letter has been intercepted .
6 Come down with me and dance at the Casablanca Club .
7 I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days .
8 If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes .
9 I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought .
10 ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way .
11 Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately .
12 There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot .
13 When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago .
14 The assumption is that there is only one possible explanation of our saying this : namely , that we believe that the man 's utterance is the result of encoding something that exists at a pre-linguistic level , namely a thought , and that in the case of the parrot there is nothing at this level .
15 The train was a slow one that stopped at every station and I was eventually discovered , clutching my red handbag and Arthur , in Carlisle where the train terminated .
16 To design a means of navigating effectively amongst thousands of images , video sequences , sound , text and numerics , all seamlessly combined as a single information resource , is a challenging problem and one that lies at the heart of successful multimedia applications .
17 If you must use a painting program then it is essential to use one that works at the resolution of the output device .
18 ‘ I recall the under-21 team finding Scott Booth , from Aberdeen , in an emergency like this one and look at the player he turned out to be , ’ said Brown .
19 So anybody that worked at the baking trade and was twenty seven was reserved .
20 She braced herself and gazed at the compass , silently begging the needle to stop wavering to and fro .
21 ‘ Look , ’ she said , thrusting the book at him and pointing at the entry .
22 ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair .
23 He took the seat to which Carson had gestured him and glanced at the message slip .
24 If not , she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away .
25 I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling .
26 Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier .
27 Cranston and Athelstan pushed by him and hammered at the great gate .
28 She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together .
29 Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre .
30 She took it from him and sipped at the sweet sherry , reminded by its taste that he bought it specially because she did n't like sweet sherry .
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