Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in disguise I knew her at once , for a truly sensual woman can not disguise herself from my perceptions once I have seen her . ’ |
| 2 | We all sleep , and as a rule we do it at night in one long session of up to nine or ten hours , and during the day we stay awake . |
| 3 | With a growl he launched himself at the wizard , boots clattering as he slid from ring to ring . |
| 4 | In the summer it was her sailing day , but in the winter she spent it at home , cooking lunch , reading the papers , and generally lazing around . |
| 5 | With a shriek of delight she threw herself at Maggie , enveloping her in the warmest of embraces . |
| 6 | ‘ I think the rise in fascism is disgusting , and I thought the most disgusting thing Morrissey did was when he said it was a National Front skinhead who threw something at him because I did n't see any fascism in the crowd at all . |
| 7 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 8 | To the north , the land rose slowly from the marshes to Althorne ridge about a mile and a half inland ; to the south there seemed nothing at all , only a grey-green , indeterminate merging of water , land and sky , beginningless and endless . |
| 9 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 10 | They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier . |
| 11 | The initial conference which launched it at Mombasa in 1968 produced a thoughtful and influential document which has done much on its own to stimulate interest and activity in social studies teaching and curriculum development . |
| 12 | Makes it pretty it improves it 's just a mou , you know mouse mat you got them at school . |
| 13 | His second outing was particularly encouraging , since the filly who beat him at Headquarters was none other than Henry Cecil 's Felucca , already a leading fancy for next year 's Classics . |
| 14 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 15 | The sort who bore you at cocktail parties . |
| 16 | The sort who bore you at cocktail parties . |
| 17 | The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man . |
| 18 | On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa . |
| 19 | With a yell she thrust herself at their leader . |
| 20 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 21 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 22 | a person who contaminates himself at a site other than the original infected source |
| 23 | if any of them relate to a procedure we take it at the same time so that we do n't have to do it again , or not ? |
| 24 | In the beginning they stabled them at Bakehouse Farm , on the A5 . |
| 25 | One day he found himself at Market Harborough but with no idea where he was going . |
| 26 | He could not plan for the way of the wind , that was luck , but for the rest he had everything at his finger-ends . |
| 27 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 28 | " Creed " was , indeed to some extent how the convert himself saw it at the time : witness the acknowledgement in letters of 1866 and 1867 , that such philosophical tenets are not philosophically demonstrable , but are acceptable as art or for their edifying power or simply as faith . |
| 29 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 30 | PAMELA : Whether sir , the nun who followed you at the masquerade is not the Countess of Pembroke ? |