Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 2 | She began to scream , high , sharp screams that tore at her chest and hurt her throat . |
| 3 | He had a broad , high-cheekboned face , a straight beak of a nose , and dark eyes that stared at us without expression . |
| 4 | I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light . |
| 5 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 6 | It was carved into planes of rugged indifference , though the blue eyes that blazed at Charity were filled with cynical censure that left her in no doubt that he had heard almost every word Mandy had uttered about him . |
| 7 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 8 | Er these are sort of parties that start at midnightish and go on through the night . |
| 9 | The bar was heady with attar of jungle parasite-blooms and other alien aromas that tweaked at Jaq 's senses , causing mild wobblings of perception and confusions of taste and smell . |
| 10 | So by some means we must devise solutions that produce at least what we have at present ; that is to say , the £27,000 million which the Inland Revenue collected by direct taxation . |
| 11 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 12 | If it goes we 're gon na bring the lads that finish at lines three and four so it 'll be what six six till , whenever you want , ten hours ? |
| 13 | Although the computer has a hyphenation dictionary ( it knows how to split words that come at the end of a line ) , a skilled composer can usually do a better job . |
| 14 | Headlong she ran , heedless of the branches that caught at her , tearing at her dark stuff gown , ripping away the white cap that covered her hair . |
| 15 | In Nicosia that morning Andreas Panayiotou had warned us about snakes , and in particular , about the squat , dirt-coloured and venomous vipers that congregated at this time of year near water where they hunted birds . |
| 16 | At himself for the doubts that ate at him , and at his ancestor for giving him nothing more than a string of empty platitudes . |
| 17 | He brushed aside new-bursting buds that slapped at his face , until he stood by the rust-eaten iron gates , watching the hearse accelerate down the road . |
| 18 | He loved to watch the crowds that gathered at Waterloo Station to greet the actresses he brought over from the US for his productions . |
| 19 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 20 | Either way , though , there was a belligerency about it , with dials that gazed at her like eyes ; mean , shifty eyes , warning her to beware . |
| 21 | His hands met a furry body and claws that flailed at him . |
| 22 | Ah , leave fretting , man ! ’ he said impatiently , feeling the fingers that clutched at his sleeve tighten in suspicious anger . |
| 23 | Beetles that have at least a portion of the adult population overwintering , carry some Laboulbeniales through the winter ; when the new adults emerge , the old , infected ones are ready to carry the infection to them . |
| 24 | Kate was sitting on one of the two deep sofas that stood at right angles to the fireplace . |
| 25 | Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels . |
| 26 | Then there arrived a rainbow of stronger colours and she could have wept for its strident spectrum that came to disturb the pastel gavotte of suns , but it had a strength she could not resist and a hundred thousand pullulating meanings that tugged at her . |
| 27 | ‘ Tell me about those three-storey houses that stand at each corner of the crossroads . |
| 28 | Although programs such as PageMaker and Ventura continue to steal the headlines as being the driving force behind desktop publishing there is a whole raft of alternative products that operate at a much lower level . |
| 29 | It produces an ice quite Ben Nicholson in the uniformity of colour , and there is an almost Rodinesque sumptuousness about the lumps and knobs that accumulate at the ends of the shelves . |
| 30 | Here , in the natural sciences , despite the complex patterns that exist at the research level , it still seems appropriate to use the broad categories identified by Comte and embodied in the nomenclature of undergraduate degrees — the physical , the chemical , the biological — while recognizing that there are gradations between these ( physical chemistry , biochemistry ) and foci and links within and across them ( geology , biophysics , physiology or ecology ) . |