Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | It beat at the stonework and screamed about projections . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The human growled behind its gag and strained at the wires . |
| 5 | She strained at the walls , but could n't project her consciousness beyond them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And I can see no other way of proceeding than that in which we proposed at the moment . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 11 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 12 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 18 | She pouted at the shake of his fur hat . |
| 19 | Thankfully , as he demonstrated at the weekend — during which he claimed 91 points from nine tries and 23 conversions — they happen . |
| 20 | Some 400 members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) yesterday demonstrated at the scene of Friday 's killings . |
| 21 | Co-operation 2.1 demonstrated at the San Francisco bash |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I followed the direction of Swire Sugden 's nicotine-stained finger as it prodded at the blueprint . |
| 24 | The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A tiny , half-formed thought rose at the back of Marion 's mind . |
| 28 | From a Bazil cross Lynas rose at the back post to head into the bottom corner of the net with eight minutes to go . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Further details from Brian Rose at the Institute . |