Example sentences of "[verb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Browse at your leisure |
| 2 | Offers galore … browse at your leisure and you 're sure to find a bargain |
| 3 | The girl pops a spoon in my mouth , and then scrapes at my chin . |
| 4 | The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed . |
| 5 | The rain beat at their eyes and the lurch of the uneven ground roller-coasted beneath them , jostling them in their saddles despite the grip of their tired knees . |
| 6 | She beat at her face , her bosom , her stomach , her hips , with hands which looked as if they were dripping with damson jam . |
| 7 | A greater fool than you could ever know , Shae thought dully , pain throbbing like a drum beat at her temples . |
| 8 | She beat at her brother 's head , causing him to screech with pain . |
| 9 | If I sleep at his house , he sleeps there . |
| 10 | She scratches at my skin , and asks again . |
| 11 | After all , you do n't invite the left in to gloat at your own failure . |
| 12 | Dazzling lights knifed at her vision from the docking bay . |
| 13 | ‘ But I think he was quite rational last night , ’ said Breeze , marvelling at her own coolness . |
| 14 | Volkov held her close ; marvelling at her selfless courage even as he reproached her . |
| 15 | Virginia fixed him with a patient , expectant gaze across the desk , marvelling at her ability to stay calm and poised whenever the name of Guy Sterne entered the conversation these days . |
| 16 | Most of them had visited the invalid often during the past few months , marvelling at his gallant spirit and his unfailing good temper . |
| 17 | He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in . |
| 18 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 19 | Birthdays , children 's parties , weddings , Hallowe'en and Valentine 's Day are just some events that could see you searching for an unusual tin in which to bake a cake that will leave your guests or children marvelling at your skills . |
| 20 | In Britain , one has already been struck off and three others are facing disciplinary hearings for improper sexual conduct with patients , the British Psychological Society disclosed at its annual conference in Scarborough yesterday . |
| 21 | In response to increasing demands for expert self-awareness and self-evaluation in meeting the demands of the new curriculum , the new organization of school government and the new involvement of parents , a head 's disposable time could be better spent in grappling at his or her own level with those organizational , philosophic and marketing questions which lie behind the giving of a professional account of a school . |
| 22 | Even then he did not fight to recover his own hold on safety , but strained at his slipping grip on the man , dragging him outwards . |
| 23 | How she wishes she were back in her snug little house , tapping away on her word-processor , dissecting the lexemes of some classic Victorian novel , delicately detaching the hermeneutic code from the proairetic code , the cultural from the symbolic , surrounded by books and files , the gas fire hissing and a cup of coffee steaming at her elbow . |
| 24 | The spaceman twiddled at his chest . |
| 25 | Mrs Jones was attacked at her home in the village of Hodson near Swindon all for the sake of sixty pounds . |
| 26 | Roy and Pauline Bridgeman were attacked at their home in Thorpe Road , Kirby Cross , at 9 pm on Sunday . |
| 27 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 28 | She 's so scared , she 'd jump at her own shadow . ’ |
| 29 | If you do n't know at your age , you should work it out . |
| 30 | until they fly at its point , in the keen |