Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He carried Wynne-Jones on his back ; the old man beat at the thorns with his stick , one arm held tightly around his son 's neck . |
| 2 | Cars sleep at the kerbsides . |
| 3 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 4 | The human growled behind its gag and strained at the wires . |
| 5 | She strained at the walls , but could n't project her consciousness beyond them . |
| 6 | Because much of the Scottish game revolves around ball won at the touchlines , extra attention will have to be paid to this facet of play . |
| 7 | But the local population was soon assembling at the stations to use the train for its own purposes . |
| 8 | You see , he was exceptionally nice and he used to lecture at the colleges and er he was a real , very nice gentleman and er and so he , of course he , he , he took his drink across to the table with him and sometimes I took it for him it just depend and he , he wrote this book and er I forget now , perhaps you would like to read and see what he says |
| 9 | Now everyone hopes the curtain is opening at the Roses Theatre on a successful and prosperous future . |
| 10 | ( We can sometimes stop a crack by increasing its tip radius — it is fairly common to see holes drilled at the ends of cracks in glass and Perspex in the hope of preventing the crack from spreading any further . ) |
| 11 | His black shoes were unpolished , the leather cracked at the sides , the toes scruffed into greyness . |
| 12 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 13 | Advocating a greater use of the birch he said ‘ Young offenders are leaving the juvenile courts laughing at the Magistrates and the Police . |
| 14 | I have seen too many offenders laughing at the courts for their weaknesses , too many malcontents exploiting the absence or inadequacy of the law , and too many criminals making the cool assessment that the risk of detection is well worth taking . |
| 15 | An Essex Girl joke but everyone was laughing at the Carpets . |
| 16 | The mixture of cheap jokes and pretentious philosophising becomes increasingly hard to stomach , however , and there are far too many moments when it is not clear whether you are supposed to be laughing at the characters or taking them seriously . |
| 17 | Maybe fifty years from now , everybody 'll be laughing at the Impressionists ! |
| 18 | The job of perceptual systems is to take these fluctuating patterns of activity occurring at the receptors and interpret them in terms of what is going on in the outside world . |
| 19 | He was educated at the Friends ' School , Rochester , and Grove House , Tottenham . |
| 20 | He was educated at the colleges of Leamington and Llandovery ( Carmarthenshire ) , entered Trinity College , Cambridge , and took his BA degree in 1857 and MA in 1867 . |
| 21 | Although educated at the universities of Granada and Madrid , he distrusted purely intellectual emphases , and poured scorn on the idea of the Muses — albeit the most lovable and influential of creatures ! |
| 22 | It was the sort of success that saw Talk Talk having insult added to injury by being nominated at the BRITS Awards for Best Band Of 1990 . |
| 23 | Fine pinkish-white roots appear at the nodes . |
| 24 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |
| 25 | All over the City , people were killing each other , having torrid affairs in seedy motel rooms , stealing bodies from the morgue , working late on revolutionary inventions , hiding out from the cops , waiting for the locksmith , running numbers , rock ‘ n ’ rolling at the high-school hop , praying at the bedsides of white-haired mothers , looking for the uranium in the wine cellar , describing their dreams to sage psychoanalysts , rehearsing for the big show , escaping across the rooftops . |
| 26 | Four point charges of equal magnitude are located at the corners of a square as shown in Fig. 2.42 . |
| 27 | They usually comprise a circle of stake-holes set into shallow trenches with stouter posts located at the doorways , suggesting a wickerwork construction with mud or clay daub walls and a thatched roof . |
| 28 | I DAWN AT THE PYRAMIDS |
| 29 | Now the time had come for Mrs Wright to be churched and the baby christened ; every member of the garrison who was not occupied at the ramparts had assembled in the rubble-strewn yard of the Residency to hear the service , for it was no longer safe to hold a service in the ruined Church . |
| 30 | He now receded from the City , rarely appearing at the exchanges , even the Baltic , the scene of his most memorable deals in Russian tallow . |