Example sentences of "[verb] something at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 2 | Topknot spread his arms above him and muttered something at the sky . |
| 3 | He came in too fast and had to swing to avoid something at the end of his run — the undercarriage collapsed . |
| 4 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 5 | Remember to put something at the bottom of the downpipe if it discharges over an open gully in order to catch whatever is blocking it , or else you might block the gully or the drains further along . |
| 6 | People have to be involved in something if they 're going to want to do something at the end . |
| 7 | They 're doing something at the boy 's school , but we 're not doing anything personally . |
| 8 | I 'm just doing something at the moment |
| 9 | And of course the , with the boxes being all round the side , the dressing boxes , this was outmoded , we needed a building at the side , which there was sufficient room to build something at the side because we had a park at the side of it then . |
| 10 | I 'm a manufacturer , I like to make things , I like to hold something at the end of day and say that 's something that 's been created . |
| 11 | I 'm going to get something at the pub on my way home . |
| 12 | He signalled to the waitress , then said : ‘ If you change your mind we might be able to get something at the airport . ’ |
| 13 | People are do something at the end of the training and it focuses your mind to the trainer writing material . |
| 14 | ‘ I had something at the hospital . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Procedures were carried out with care and precision on a ‘ right first time ’ principle — they did not rely on adjusting something at the end of the process to get it right . ’ |
| 16 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 17 | An odd posture , bent over — it was the girl of this afternoon , and she was going to throw something at the windows of the sitting-room . |