Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small boy armed with a stick tried to beat off two hungry-looking dogs which sniffed suspiciously at the dead beggar 's bloody feet . |
| 2 | The mountain , eleven granite peaks rising between the gentle flow of the Dee in the north and the foaming River Muick in the south , was a presence which pulled everlastingly at the primitive senses of the people below it . |
| 3 | The only form of private enterprise ( including building ) which aimed primarily at the mass market , apart from the market and small shop , was the tavern which became the elaborate ‘ gin-palace ’ in the Britain of the 1860s and 1870s — and its offspring the theatre and music-hall . |
| 4 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 5 | The day which ended terribly at the presidential palace started badly at the same venue . |