Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouting and laughing , the family disembarked at a broken-down council estate covered in rubbish . |
| 2 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 3 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
| 4 | It makes your heart beat at an invigorating pace . |
| 5 | It beat at the stonework and screamed about projections . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She strained at the walls , but could n't project her consciousness beyond them . |
| 8 | The human growled behind its gag and strained at the wires . |
| 9 | The animal , alarmed by such rapid movement , now sprang to his full height , his great unsheathed paws beating the air as he strained at the massive steel collar around his neck . |
| 10 | All at once she became achingly aware of the thinness of the cotton shirt that skimmed down over her thighs , the way the deep V where she had left it unbuttoned at the neck gave glimpses of the top curve of her breasts , and she immediately backed away . |
| 11 | Libya proposed at a weekend Arab League meeting that Malta should receive the pair . |
| 12 | Yeltsin proposed at a meeting of his supporters on Nov. 28-29 that a pro-reform party or movement should be established , offering to participate in any such movement . |
| 13 | And I can see no other way of proceeding than that in which we proposed at the moment . |
| 14 | Auguste 's eyes misted at the sound and sight of the lovely Araminta , Multhrop 's eighteen-year-old daughter , rustling down the staircase in a delightful froufrou of petticoats , her large blue eyes fixed on her father , but well aware of every male in sight . |
| 15 | He had a nervous twitch which jerked at a muscle at the corner of his thin-lipped mouth and a malevolent stare . |
| 16 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 17 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 18 | Later we dined at a restaurant quite near the flat . ’ |
| 19 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 20 | On July 19th 1821 Green dined at the Salutation Inn at Ambleside , drank the health of the newly-crowned George IV , and sang ‘ God Save the King ’ twice . |
| 21 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nick Cave surfaced at a time when post-punk 's handle on the workings of desire was diagrammatic and programmatic . |
| 24 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 25 | It surfaced at the start of the eighteenth century in Paty 's Case ( 1704 ) 2 Ld Raym 1105 , where the fact that the officers of the House failed to make a sufficient particular return to the writ of Habeas Corpus was taken by Holt CJ ( dissenting , but prestigious ) to justify intervention by the courts . |
| 26 | I promised at the outset , however , to show that reductive treatment of these features of the mind leads to an incoherent conception of the world , quite independently of the inadequacies of the reductions themselves : that is , even if the reduction of consciousness and thought were not independently flawed , the picture of the world that emerges is incoherent . |
| 27 | Exactly one year after he announced the unbanning of black opposition groups , President F. W. de Klerk promised at the opening of Parliament on Feb. 1 to scrap all remaining apartheid legislation . |
| 28 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 29 | She pouted at the shake of his fur hat . |
| 30 | Co-operation 2.1 demonstrated at the San Francisco bash |