Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come down with me and dance at the Casablanca Club . |
| 2 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 3 | If Agrippa gave an order they obeyed with alacrity , but sometimes I caught them watching me and shuddered at the amusement in their icy , pale-blue eyes . |
| 4 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
| 5 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 6 | Perhaps your secretary or some other intelligent person can sit alongside you and jot down , unobtrusively , the main points made by other speakers and indicate who is speaking so that you can look at them and glance at the notes alternately . |
| 7 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 8 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , ’ she said , thrusting the book at him and pointing at the entry . |
| 10 | ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair . |
| 11 | He took the seat to which Carson had gestured him and glanced at the message slip . |
| 12 | If not , she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away . |
| 13 | I lay in the bed beside him and stared at the ceiling . |
| 14 | Sometimes my brothers and I were allowed to get out of the car with him and peek at the movie in progress while he spoke to the manager or cashier . |
| 15 | Cranston and Athelstan pushed by him and hammered at the great gate . |
| 16 | She fetched antiseptic and some cotton wool , then bent towards him and dabbed at the place , a pose that brought their heads close together . |
| 17 | Blake felt people gathering around him and staring at the warehouse now transformed into a burning pyre . |
| 18 | She took it from him and sipped at the sweet sherry , reminded by its taste that he bought it specially because she did n't like sweet sherry . |
| 19 | But the rest of his appeal was lost as Erika pushed past him and stood at the end of the bus , well aware that Paul would rather postpone his appeal than stand the two slow lurching miles to the club . |
| 20 | I may even have just called for him and stood at the door . |
| 21 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
| 22 | Dada took the book from her and looked at the first page . |
| 23 | She turned up the volume of the calypso tape Elaine had given her and sang at the top of her voice , thinking about whether to have a formal dinner party for the charity night , as Pauline suggested , or a more casual fancy-dress party on Halloween , which was what she would prefer . |
| 24 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |
| 25 | He had moved past her and stood at the foot of a soaring staircase , hands on his hips . |
| 26 | Bill Hamilton smiled across the room at her and pointed at a side table where drinks and appetising titbits were laid out . |
| 27 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 28 | Beinn Alligin is the third of the great Torridon giants and more amenable than its fellows , and more honest , the whole effort of climbing to the summit ridge , traversing it and descending at the far end to return down the corrie being assessed at a glance , although probably under-estimated . |
| 29 | She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning . |
| 30 | He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside . |