Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Each branch point can be thought of as occurring at a cell division and so the branching pattern is also a cell lineage which starts with the multipotential stem cell .
2 Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall .
3 He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts .
4 The shuttle stopped , trembling , as if straining at a leash .
5 In this Jarman sits , Prospero-like , sniffing flowers as if grasping at a memory of happier times .
6 She lowered her head , as if to look at the floor .
7 His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel .
8 In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part .
9 He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs .
10 And then we went on to and parked at the start of and walked up one side and back down the other side and that 's as much as I saw of it .
11 Forget the cameras and everyone else in the studio and talk to and look at the interviewer or the members of the panel .
12 He switched the light on and looked at the clock .
13 Philip put his glasses on and stared at the boy .
14 In Polyscope , the faculty newspaper stacked in bins by the Polytechnique 's front doors and on the tables of the cafeteria and the first-floor lounge , a cartoon strip portrayed a classroom of agitated students , toques on and satchels at the ready , held in their seats by a teacher marking on the blackboard IL RESTE 30 SECONDES — ‘ 30 seconds remaining ’ — the end of the academic year !
15 Concomitant symptoms are symptoms not directly related to but arising at the same time as , the main complaint such as a headache with diarrhoea or cold sores with a fever — things which are repeatedly associated , so that the patient might say ‘ Whenever I get this problem I always get a stomach upset ’ or whatever it may be .
16 Either way , this section looks at some of the things you should think about when arriving at a new location .
17 The first is where the whole of the programme is provided by and taught at a major centre , as in the case of Bristol Polytechnic ; the second is where the first year is provided extra-murally at a number of associated centres , while the second year only is provided at the main centre , as the case of Portsmouth Polytechnic ; and the third is where both the first and second years are provided at the main and associate centres as at Plymouth Polytechnic and Cornwall Technical College , Camborne .
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