Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't throw them at the windows . |
| 2 | to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum . |
| 3 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 4 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 5 | When we arrived it seemed such a friendly place , there would be 2 or 3 people to meet you at the gates and welcome you in . |
| 6 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
| 7 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 8 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
| 9 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 10 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
| 11 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 12 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 13 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 14 | You do n't grasp it when you 're young , and if you 're born , obviously as a lot of the population now are , much younger , and have n't really been either touched or involved in a war , it 's very difficult , it 's something which we 've all seen on television , we 've all seen it at the films and you tend if you 're not careful , to pick up the glamorous side of it , you do n't realise I do n't think and in fact I keep saying this — I do n't think you can ever realise what it must be like to be in a battle until you 've actually been there . |
| 15 | ‘ As they strap in for holiday flights , how many people imagine themselves at the controls ? ’ said a Virgin spokesman . |
| 16 | DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday . |
| 17 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
| 18 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 19 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 20 | Another sharp blast of heavy rain threw itself at the windowpanes of her flat , and brought Leith , startled , out of the brown study she had fallen into . |
| 21 | Goldman had his arms round her , trapping her at the elbows , his hands clasped across her breasts . |
| 22 | In directing it at the targets they did , however , they produced effects that feminists such as Josephine Butler might have eventually found abhorrent . |
| 23 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |
| 24 | ‘ I gave 'em the price of a pint or two , in hopes they might come and spend it at the Watermen ! |
| 25 | I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off . |
| 26 | We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society . |
| 27 | They were laughing and talking and putting black square things to their faces , pointing them at the eagles , and clicking them . |
| 28 | I 'll meet you at the tights department , but you can go and have a look at the , anything else first if you want to and then come back to the tights , I 'll shall be a minute or two . |
| 29 | ‘ The Dream is trying to stay together , but our input is expanding it at the seams . |
| 30 | Bung 'em at the baddies for all you 're worth , but do n't waste 'em — you 've only got a limited supply ! |