Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures .
2 But Llewellyn denied his players had grabbed testicles or spat at the world champions .
3 She thought of it first when she spent her two nights on the Embankment , which was littered as soon as dark fell with sad , wild men and women stuffing bread into their mouths out of brown paper bags or staring at the barges on the river .
4 This degree of knowledge will not guarantee immunity from mistakes or deceit at the hands of unscrupulous dealers , but it will help to combat the more obvious attempts at misinformation — far more likely than outright deception — and assist in assessing the integrity of any dealer or expert whom one may need to rely on for advice .
5 On a purely practical note , all this added up to quite a bit in value and Ivy Cottage did not appear to have any extra locks or catches at the windows .
6 Fair-haired Jews from Moscow and Leningrad mingled with olive-skinned Georgians to read the Cyrillic slogans welcoming them and then sank down in rows of plastic chairs or gazed at the panoramic photograph of Jerusalem covering an entire wall .
7 Now they are more likely to spend their time sitting in front of the television , watching videos or staring at a computer screen .
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