Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It beat at the stonework and screamed about projections . |
| 2 | All at once she became achingly aware of the thinness of the cotton shirt that skimmed down over her thighs , the way the deep V where she had left it unbuttoned at the neck gave glimpses of the top curve of her breasts , and she immediately backed away . |
| 3 | And I can see no other way of proceeding than that in which we proposed at the moment . |
| 4 | Auguste 's eyes misted at the sound and sight of the lovely Araminta , Multhrop 's eighteen-year-old daughter , rustling down the staircase in a delightful froufrou of petticoats , her large blue eyes fixed on her father , but well aware of every male in sight . |
| 5 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 6 | On July 19th 1821 Green dined at the Salutation Inn at Ambleside , drank the health of the newly-crowned George IV , and sang ‘ God Save the King ’ twice . |
| 7 | It surfaced at the start of the eighteenth century in Paty 's Case ( 1704 ) 2 Ld Raym 1105 , where the fact that the officers of the House failed to make a sufficient particular return to the writ of Habeas Corpus was taken by Holt CJ ( dissenting , but prestigious ) to justify intervention by the courts . |
| 8 | Exactly one year after he announced the unbanning of black opposition groups , President F. W. de Klerk promised at the opening of Parliament on Feb. 1 to scrap all remaining apartheid legislation . |
| 9 | I promised at the outset , however , to show that reductive treatment of these features of the mind leads to an incoherent conception of the world , quite independently of the inadequacies of the reductions themselves : that is , even if the reduction of consciousness and thought were not independently flawed , the picture of the world that emerges is incoherent . |
| 10 | She pouted at the shake of his fur hat . |
| 11 | Thankfully , as he demonstrated at the weekend — during which he claimed 91 points from nine tries and 23 conversions — they happen . |
| 12 | Some 400 members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) yesterday demonstrated at the scene of Friday 's killings . |
| 13 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 14 | I followed the direction of Swire Sugden 's nicotine-stained finger as it prodded at the blueprint . |
| 15 | The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table . |
| 16 | ‘ As sure as hell not to see through , that 's a fact ! ’ he ripped into her flatly , and , before she could draw breath , he prodded at the folder that lay on his desk and rapped , ‘ You read perfectly well from this file — without your glasses — the night I delivered it to your apartment ! ’ |
| 17 | This was Maclean of Duart , Chief of Clan Gillian , unchallenged lord of life and death ; her life and death ; and her scalp rose at the dread of him . |
| 18 | A tiny , half-formed thought rose at the back of Marion 's mind . |
| 19 | From a Bazil cross Lynas rose at the back post to head into the bottom corner of the net with eight minutes to go . |
| 20 | The city rose at the edge of a green plain , nestling in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada , and as Mitch gasped Ana realised they had arrived . |
| 21 | Further details from Brian Rose at the Institute . |
| 22 | Prices of electricity and gas rose at the beginning of 1991 , increasing retail prices by 12.7 per cent overall . |
| 23 | Flax mills and handweavers — also useful generally because they helped at the harvest and other farm-intensive moments — came to these villages which were advertised as having little plots of land , enough to sustain a cow , and enough peat to keep a family fireplace burning , and enough life in general to support those married , or intending to marry . |
| 24 | I would also like to thank everyone who helped at the summer festivals : they are a valuable way to promote our branch as well as raising funds . |
| 25 | They bristled at the sight of the Doctor . |
| 26 | She bristled at the command . |
| 27 | Returning to the questions we posed at the outset of this enquiry , we would , therefore , have to conclude that anti-Semitism , despite its pivotal place in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , was of only secondary importance in cementing the bonds between Führer and people which provided the Third Reich with its popular legitimation and base of plebiscitary acclamation . |
| 28 | Alan Duffy had overheard Mr Simmons and Miss Craven talking about Frankie 's father , who was a real-life American who had been in the Army and the merchant navy and was now a farmer who posed at the School of Art and played guitar in a popular local dance-band . |
| 29 | In front of it was the kitchen garden , which was the only part of the grounds to be kept in order , for Adam Diggory , although he grumbled at the necessity , was obliged to tend it as it provided most of the vegetable produce for the household table . |
| 30 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |