Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 2 | At Mildenhall in Suffolk in the spring of 1688 , a parson threatened to bring a Nonconformist minister before a JP for preaching a sermon , saying that it should cost him £20 ( the fine for preaching at a conventicle under the terms of the 1670 Act , whose operation had just been suspended ) . |
| 3 | Little is known of his childhood , though it is said he developed a talent for drawing at an early age . |
| 4 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 5 | Britains richest man … was fined a hundred and twenty pounds for speeding at a hundred miles an hour along the M5 . |
| 6 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 7 | However , both sides cautioned against over-optimistic hopes that treaties on all three issues could be ready for signing at the planned " superpower " summit in Washington in June . |
| 8 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 9 | We all fell about laughing at the idea of a man with virtually no English suddenly coming out with such a word . |
| 10 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other wacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 11 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other whacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 12 | At British general elections , vote counts are reported at constituency level only , so that where a party gets its votes is largely unknown ( though party workers have efficient ways of estimating the geography of their support when acting as scrutineers at the count ) . |
| 13 | Green records when he has had a particularly good meal : after eating at the Swan in Grasmere , with Anne , he writes ‘ the dinner good and cheap , all cheerful … |
| 14 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 15 | Shortly after landing at the site , McGuinness met W/C Parsons , Embarkation Officer at Glasgow ; S/L Orr , Maintenance Command ; F/L Morgan , 50 Squadron , S/L Wall from the Air Ministry and S/L Hughes who was in charge of the RAF ground crews tasked with maintaining the Spitfires during their transfer . |
| 16 | Earlier in the week , after qualifying at a record speed of 482.892mph , Shelton burnt a piston in the No 12 cylinder . |
| 17 | She pounded on the masonry with her fist and then , after tearing at the fastenings round her right foot , with the heel of her boot . |
| 18 | After laughing at the idea of launching Forest Hills in Liverpool , Adidas let him have 500 pairs . |
| 19 | After training at the School of Military Engineering , Chatham , he served in the Boer war ( 1901–2 ) and then in Chatham ( 1904 ) , Bermuda ( 1904–7 ) , Harwich ( 1907–9 ) , and Ireland ( 1909–12 ) , before passing top into the Staff College at Camberley in 1912 . |
| 20 | I first got the idea of the crocheted styles after looking at a piece of fabric and thinking : ‘ I could do that with hair . ’ |
| 21 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |
| 22 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 23 | ‘ However , after looking at the still pictures I realised that Gerrard and Obolensky were in excellent positions for the pass to the right . |
| 24 | I shall return to this after looking at the other two models ( see pp. 46 – 48 ) . |
| 25 | One class , after looking at an old muster roll and hearing how men in their county were called up to fight in the militia , made a cut-out army of 150 cardboard soldiers . |
| 26 | TRANSPORT helpline clerk Bill Goulding was sacked after swearing at a caller and hurling his phone headset out of a window , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 27 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 28 | In this context Japan 's overwhelming dependence on imported oil set off the most severe economic recession since World War II and GNP actually fell by 1 per cent in 1974 after growing at an average rate of nearly 10 per cent in the previous six years . |
| 29 | In Russia Catherine II , after conniving at the overthrow and murder of her husband in 1762 , was on continuously bad terms with her son and heir , Paul , who feared and hated her and whom in the last two decades of her reign she scarcely ever saw . |
| 30 | In most situations , therefore , it is sufficient to disinfect after cleaning at the end of each work cycle . |