Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I certainly feel like celebrat ing my painting at the moment — I have n't done any for weeks . |
2 | ‘ I 'm really enjoying my game at the moment , because it 's been a top end to the season for us , ’ he enthused . |
3 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
4 | Recently , I tried to cancel my appearance at a benefit as my pianist was ill . |
5 | One day before we had moved up there I was at the melin for a few days with an actress friend from London when I announced my attendance at a jumble sale that afternoon . |
6 | ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy . |
7 | I would turn down an Oscar to see my boy at a baseball game or my girl at a song recital . |
8 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
9 | But this purported resolution of the paradox , as Fried concedes , only demonstrates the compatibility of uninhibited freedom to enter contracts with respect for autonomy ; it ‘ does not show that I am morally obligated to perform my promise at a later time if to do so proves inconvenient or costly ’ . |
10 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
11 | I plucked one of the torches from the wall and crouched down , wrinkling my nose at the mild sour odour . |
12 | I made my entry at the end of the song . |
13 | It is because of that commitment and my understanding of the values and decent opinions of the Province that I have placed my resignation at the Prime Minister 's disposal . |
14 | First , cavorting lunatic- savant features editor , James Brown , snogged my mate at a party . |
15 | It 's time to try my hand at the settled life . |
16 | I discharged my responsibility at the court , and that is that . |
17 | I 'm really , really , really changed dramatically from not eating very much to scoffing my face at every single available opportunity . |
18 | I went upstairs , had a wash then took my place at the dining table . |
19 | ‘ I changed my mind at the last minute . ’ |
20 | WHILE Swansea maintained their position at the head of the Heineken League 's Division One with a comfortable 23–4 win over bottom club Maesteg , Llanelli stayed in touch , one point behind , by beating Cardiff 22–6 . |
21 | ‘ To meet her couturier at the Hilton . |
22 | Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts . |
23 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
24 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
25 | When Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 9 November 1856 ) tried its hand at a garotting song , it summed up the feeling well enough : |
26 | Mikhail Gorbachev got his hands on a Montego when he visited its home at the Cowley assembly plant in Oxford 7 years ago , just before taking office at Soviet leader . |
27 | The roar of applause when it later rids itself of them may boost its popularity at a critical moment . |
28 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |
29 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
30 | Taking to Water ( July ) , in which Jeannette Kupfermann described her stay at a thalassotherapy centre , had a huge response . |