Example sentences of "and [vb pp] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are kindly , educated people many of whom have spent their lives helping others and to whom fate has dealt a cruel , unexpected blow , leaving them bereaved and frightened at a time of approaching frailty . |
| 2 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , both excited and frightened at the prospect . |
| 4 | She was staring wide-eyed and frightened at the supper room 's open doorway which , like a proscenium arch , framed the Highland dancers and , quite suddenly , now also framed her lover . |
| 5 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 6 | Another design that was to remain a firm favourite was the waterproof snow boot — fur-lined , with suede on the outside and fastened at the front or side with a zip . |
| 7 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
| 8 | Jitters leaned close and spat at the cowboy . |
| 9 | Status of all rooms , including those ready for use , can be displayed and adjusted at the Hotel Manager workstation . |
| 10 | Many opponents of the measures fear that small farmers and others in developing countries will be restricted from using traditional seed varieties and placed at a disadvantage as a result . |
| 11 | For his pains , he was treated disrespectfully by guest players and placed at the centre of the most distasteful charade ever seen on an English first-class cricket field . |
| 12 | Although Aldo Ciccolini is Neapolitan by birth , he has lived in France since 1949 and taught at the Paris Conservatoire , and has made fine recordings of French piano music including works by Saint-Saëns and Satie . |
| 13 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 14 | Mr Attwooll said Gregory was driving John Wright when Gregory said he had an errand to run and stopped at a house in Billingham . |
| 15 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 16 | She read some verses and not others , understood some lines and not others , and stopped at every mention of angels or children or weeping or suffering . |
| 17 | He drove off slowly and stopped at the lights . |
| 18 | Nathan passed through the curtain and stopped at the top of the steps . |
| 19 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 20 | Finally a single Land-Rover ground over the ridge and stopped at the barricade . |
| 21 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 22 | Bigwig went a little way down the run and stopped at the entrance to a large burrow . |
| 23 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 24 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 27 | He bent forward and plucked at the coat . |
| 28 | In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part . |
| 29 | Within the Russian republic the Communists for Democracy movement , led by Rutskoi and formed at the March-April 1991 Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see pp. 38130-31 ] , announced on July 10 that it was to form a political party . |
| 30 | Her remains were stolen and hidden at the foot of an oak tree in this valley , to be eventually found , in the familiar manner of such discoveries , by an inquisitively rooting ox , whose horns at once lit indicatively up . |