Example sentences of "by [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you do n't acknowledge this resentment , you will inevitably let it seep out and it 's all too easy to punish him by hinting at inadequacies , and burden him with guilt at your loss . |
| 2 | When Parliament was in recess , the Whig leaders continued to keep in close touch , usually by gathering at their country houses , though occasionally holding more formal councils at Newmarket . |
| 3 | Punters with credit cards or bookies ' accounts managed a wager by queueing at pay phones to place their bets with credit bookmakers . |
| 4 | How much does society lose by producing at the free market equilibrium point E rather than at the socially efficient point E ' ; ? |
| 5 | Alternatively , neuropeptide Y may have produced its choleretic effect by binding at a hypothelamic level , where neuropeptide Y receptors are also plentiful . |
| 6 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 7 | Hijackers who had stolen a load of leather jackets attracted attention by driving at 40mph on the M2 near Sittingbourne , Kent . |
| 8 | The speed reductions would be achieved , by applying at critical points in the network , some of the same sort of Verkehrsberuhigung measures as those which were at that time being installed in the new rest and play areas . |
| 9 | The mujaheddin marked the 10th anniversary of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan on Dec. 27 in similar fashion by launching at least 52 rockets into Kabul killing dozens of people according to a government spokesperson . |
| 10 | They are blessed with good humour and bring luck to mortal miners by knocking at spots behind the seam faces where rich ore lodes may be found . |
| 11 | They and their successors raised money by knocking at doors and distributing leaflets . |
| 12 | She seldom asked for advice and never took it , but Mona knew how to disguise mere advice by scoffing at any other conclusion but her own . |
| 13 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 14 | He also found peace there and renewed an old pleasure , by boating at Lugano where he met Hesse . |
| 15 | Warmer fluid escaped through the interfacial region above the sedimenting layer and enhanced the convection driven by cooling at the roof . |
| 16 | The dog ended the quarrel by leaping at Clare Evans , ripping open her face and neck . |
| 17 | We do operate a handicap system and certificates are only issued by qualifying at our golf days . |
| 18 | These books and plays and films reveal a humanity which surmounts , as has been said , the hardship and brutality they describe — surmounts it , as a rule , by laughing at it . |
| 19 | ‘ By laughing at them you make them a victim — and all humour has a victim , even if it 's yourself , ’ says Carl . |
| 20 | aplomb and turn it to your advantage by laughing at yourself , ‘ I am so hap-p-p … |
| 21 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 22 | Of course , Miss Kenton can not hope by returning at this stage ever to retrieve those lost years , and it will be my first duty to impress this upon her when we meet . |
| 23 | Suppose , for example , a group is given a task that is tightly defined and where the group has previous experience of similar talks , it is likely to succeed by operating at a formal stage level . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll show you tonight , ’ he whispered roughly in her ear and followed that threat up by nibbling at her earlobe till she giggled helplessly . |
| 25 | But he greeted me by swearing at me , so I went into the hall to find somebody else . |
| 26 | and I thought it was hysterical , it was the fact that you noticed when you first came here about if somebody liked you they always greeted you by swearing at you |
| 27 | The dog gamely drove off the donkey by snapping at its heels . |
| 28 | A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player . |
| 29 | He recently met a man who claimed to be able to kill birds by shouting at them . |
| 30 | One basic decision you have to make is whether to index a card by writing at the top of the card a theme/keyword or a name of an author/title . |