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

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1 Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets .
2 So do you want me to call at the 's now ?
3 The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre .
4 The pelagic animals generally try to achieve ‘ neutral buoyancy ’ , to enable them to stay at the required depth without effort ; and many have devices to alter buoyancy .
5 Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’
6 Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills .
7 Mrs Tiller suddenly pulled me out and made me stand at the side .
8 Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies .
9 Then he made me look at the windows .
10 On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’
11 In an effort to combat the isolation and fear I felt at the time , I sought out a number of parents in similar situations to my own ; we had to create our own support systems .
12 it 'll be back again Mind you , I feel it I mean I know at the moment it 's it 's me I my elbows in the morning I ca n't hardly move them when I wake up in the morning because I get that far my arms have to be outside the bed and our bedroom 's that cold
13 I mean I think at the end of the day because we 're w going to have to basically in a sense your job I think even though at the moment you 're saying you know fine I 'm not gon na exclude anything , I think it 's actually going to be sort of , to try and eliminate most of this .
14 For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves .
15 They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season .
16 And Sonya 's We are one , we live as one , ’ while it remains authorially bold , has nothing to fear at the hands of readers quick to sniff out dogma .
17 and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because
18 Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli .
19 Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away .
20 Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else .
21 Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk .
22 One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out .
23 But in attempting to discover why the Russian Revolution followed the path it did , he found himself arriving at the conclusion that , far from being a ‘ false ’ deviation , in the circumstances of history Stalinism had been necessary .
24 ‘ I suggest you look at the evidence with your own eyes before you start accusations that you might find impossible to back up .
25 I expect you aimed at the walls. ,
26 ‘ I want you to begin at the beginning and tell me your life .
27 Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play .
28 ‘ Dave , I want you to stay at the office .
29 ‘ There 's a very special person I want you to meet at the concert tomorrow .
30 Istvan Gati , as the Persian King , Orontes , is a sensational baritone with a clear , passionate tone , although his baritone Jozsef Moldvay sounds as though he has something stuck at the back o his mouth , a bit of dust maybe , which causes him to deliver the interpretation of his role in a somewhat unexpected manner .
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