Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 2 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 3 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 4 | The misinformation concerns only the route Déj ‘ a Vu and has nothing at all to do with Prodigal Sons . |
| 5 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 6 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |
| 7 | And finally two Ayr police officers said that a shelved 1969 report showed they had picked up a man ‘ of slight build and a Glasgow accent who said his name was McGuigan or McGuinness ’ some 600 yards from the Ross bungalow in the early hours of the morning of the murder and dropped him at the bus station ; and they now declared from photographs recently shown to them that the man was William McGuinness . |
| 8 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 9 | The man brought out a photograph and held it at arm 's length , walking toward them . |
| 10 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 11 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 12 | Harry takes the matchstick out of his mouth and points it at Howard . |
| 13 | She drew in deeply and exhaled through her nose , then snapped the cigarette briskly from her mouth and pointed it at him with a flourish . |
| 14 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 15 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 16 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 17 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 18 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 19 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 20 | A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere . |
| 21 | Policies such as these penalise those who drink sensibly , are detrimental to the drinks industry and do nothing at all to deter those who are determined to abuse alcohol . |
| 22 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 23 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
| 24 | Remember you can not receive a confrontation and give one at the same time . |
| 25 | Some of them aid the deception by raising their tails and wagging them at the approaching attacker , while keeping the rest of the body still . |
| 26 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 27 | It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do . |
| 28 | To determine how to improve drill bit efficiency for the 12 ¼″ well section , Fear recently spent two months gathering data and processing it at BPXC . |
| 29 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
| 30 | But the , you know it 's two o'clock in the morning and police car 's coming through the village and see someone at that time , they 're quite likely to stop and ask them what they 're doing . |