Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans . |
| 2 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 3 | You have to follow the rules and work at the right pace to make it work . |
| 4 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 5 | These are connected vertically to the idol along the spinal column , over the chakras and end at the head . |
| 6 | Its many alterations and additions reflect in stone and brick , the looms and busts at the woollen industry . |
| 7 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 8 | It would he a very revealing item of Bomber Command 's history were a tape to be made available today of that unfortunate telephone link-up , and for a cold assessment to be made of all the circumstances as known at the time . |
| 9 | For example , his mother finds it almost impossible to prepare Veronica 's tea , which she likes to feed to the child , because John empties cupboards upstairs , turns on taps , climbs on top of the wardrobe , hangs from the banisters and shouts at the top of his voice . |
| 10 | The sledger shouted and kicked , he cursed the dogs and swore at the television crew The dogs slept on and the race went past him . |
| 11 | I am still willing to negotiate and talk to the organisations and look at the sport . |
| 12 | The starry-eyed idealists who start revolutions , he told himself , are incapable of visualising the horrors that lie at the end of them . |
| 13 | That choice is best made in the light of the conditions that prevail at the time . |
| 14 | or you could use one or more of the questions that appear at the end of each section of the main text of this booklet . |
| 15 | Ian , can I ask you to save the questions and respond at the end , otherwise you 'll find the discussion takes much longer , is that alright ? |
| 16 | Akroteria were later added in bronze : Victories at the apices and basins at the outer angles . |
| 17 | Of course the other irony as well is that the powers that meet at the conference at St Petersburg er the powers decide they will intervene in Greece . |
| 18 | Now we could ask him to write about what he has drawn , to tell as much as he knows about the trains that run at the back of his house . |
| 19 | Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry . |
| 20 | The cat was white , a Suristani with a prehensile tail , and it hung from the lower branch of one of the trees and slashed at the dogs which were clustered below . |
| 21 | He whipped at his horse with the reins and stared at the wood ahead , trying to drag it closer by sheer willpower . |
| 22 | A raven swooped down from its perch in the rafters and dived at the wizard , talons open and gleaming . |
| 23 | I climb the stairs and hesitate at the front door . |
| 24 | In desperation she ran down the stairs and called at a neighbour ( whose young son happily was at home ) . |
| 25 | there is 's ‘ particles of fire ’ theory of heat set in the context of the arguments that raged at the time : that is , heat as a fluid ( caloric ) versus heat as motion ( kinetic ) . |
| 26 | I 'd like to import this list into a database , and then mailmerge the names and addresses at the top of my document . |
| 27 | Consequently , crew weight should be equalised at all times , whether the crew is to leeward or windward : that is why the halyards and the topping lift are usually controlled by the stoppers and winches at the base of the mast . |
| 28 | She shook her head to dispel the shadows and looked at the four children sitting listlessly on the couch . |
| 29 | Favourite backers had few anxious moments about the narrow margins involved in their investment , however , as Pencader was always up with the leaders and quickened at the furlong pole to score by two lengths . |
| 30 | Result : even worse defeat , culminating in the degradation of last year 's 60-pointer by Australia and the shenanigans that followed at the post-match dinner . |