Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 3 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 4 | Curative , hospital-based medicine dominated at the expense of prevention , health promotion and community services , and high priority was given to the treatment of short-term episodes of acute illness to the detriment of the care and rehabilitation of the chronically ill . |
| 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 | Cars sleep at the kerbsides . |
| 8 | As I say , fun , fun , fun I say , like I say sometimes you can do a pissing rain in a fucking hole and have about four hours sleep at the weekend , then we get , we get back get into the bar and we 'd have a fucking good laugh about it . |
| 9 | Does Birmingham want a centre where people live and work , or a shopping complex that draws in people who live and sleep at the end of the bus routes ? |
| 10 | There are two chief types of tombs which date from the seventh to first century B.C. One type consists of a tumulus , or burial mound , of earth , circular in plan and surrounded at the base by a stone wall . |
| 11 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 12 | Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ . |
| 13 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 14 | That is either voltage or ligands , in the cases respectively of voltage activated channels or ligand activated channels , both of those factors will act at the level of gating . |
| 15 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 16 | If you are going to fly your glider efficiently while turning steeply in thermals with other gliders , you need to know how it will behave at the stall . |
| 17 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |
| 18 | Cornelius was stumbling along behind , marvelling at the Edinburgh Mercury . |
| 19 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 20 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 21 | Their behaviour was at times appalling ; when little they would spend long stretches of each class on the floor behind the benches , playing with bits of mercury , pricking it with needles and pen nibs , watching it slip into the coarse splintery cracks of the dusty floorboards , and forcing it out again , marvelling at the way it shrugged the dirt off its rounded shoulders . |
| 22 | They marched past it , back and forth , marvelling at the way they were drawn towards it . |
| 23 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 24 | John Coffin walked away , marvelling at the strangeness of life which made him now mourn a petty criminal whom he had not liked and whom no one had appeared to love , and who might , just possibly , have also poisoned three people . |
| 25 | She went closer to the walls , marvelling at the detail : the starfish flung up on the painted sand , the panting dog , the discarded bucket and spade , the bottle of sun oil . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sure it is n't as bad as that , ’ said Greg , who was n't who was , in fact , marvelling at the effect of three weeks of Viola , and wondering whether there could n't be more to it than just that . |
| 27 | Visitors marvelling at the perfection of work at the Woodworker Show . |
| 28 | He turned to look at her , marvelling at the perfection of her body and the animal passion he had found in her . |
| 29 | At 5.45 Lydia walked down the path to the car , marvelling at the power which people like Betty could wield merely by threatening to sulk . |
| 30 | JOHN Dunlop was left marvelling at the difference a day makes when Eurolink Thunder and Captain Horatius doubled up for him at Kempton yesterday . |