Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But what struck like an ice-cold knife into Owen 's heart was the group of six or seven men standing in the middle of the road , between him and the fire , laughing and jeering at the villagers ' puny efforts to save their homes . |
| 32 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 33 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 34 | Quiss clawed at the wall , tearing the faded , yellowing books away from it , throwing them behind him like a dog digging a hole in the sand , bellowing incoherently and tearing and swiping at the wall , baring the green-black slate beneath as the torn , ripped pages fluttered away behind him falling to the grimy glass floor like some flat , grubby snow . |
| 35 | He was groaning and clawing at the pillow . |
| 36 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 37 | He is finally met and defeated at the Battle of Osterwald . |
| 38 | Professor Martin Warnke , of Hamburg University , and Andreas Beyer , of the University of Bonn , met and talked at the symposium held in Hamburg on 30 March to mark the centenary of the birth of Erwin Panofsky . |
| 39 | Eventually Gnashrak is defeated and captured at the Battle of Broken Leg Gulley by a Dwarf army led by Lord Ungrim Ironfist of Karak Kadrin . |
| 40 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
| 41 | Size will evaporate in the course of the years , and new writing will blur and spread at the edges . |
| 42 | MacDiarmid waved him forward with a commanding sweep of his arm and he came and sat at the end of the table . |
| 43 | Both places had latches and as long as I got ten yards ' start on him , I could slam the door shut and slip my half clothes-peg under the latch — I always carried a half clothes-peg for the purpose — and no matter how much he blasphemed and kicked at the door he could n't get in . |
| 44 | So , as part of the briefing process , Orpington employees and their families were taken on day trip coach tours to Stevenage so that they could visit the site where the new offices were being built and look at the types of houses and facilities available in the area . |
| 45 | As a leading historian of medieval technology has remarked , ‘ No European community felt able to hold up its head unless in its midst the planets wheeled in cycles and epicycles , whilst angels trumpeted and countermarched at the booming of the hours . ’ |
| 46 | This is the language of the press release , breathlessly informing us that a speculator whose environmental record is not exactly unblemished and whose monstrous Land 's End ‘ facilities ’ are a blight against all aesthetic considerations , really does care what happens to the dear little flowers that have taken eternity to develop , and the cuddly cliff faces which shake and quiver at the climber 's intrusive touch . |
| 47 | Benjamin stirred and shouted at the slattern to bring a toothpick . |
| 48 | In every case , the purchaser had visited and stayed at the site before buying . |
| 49 | ‘ However , the teeth were made and fitted at the beginning of June . |
| 50 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 51 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 52 | You all learned to swim and dive at the Kokine Swimming Club , and you and Mig became Girl Guides at the school . |
| 53 | Whatever the justification there may have been in the past , when a high degree of ability may have been necessary to acquire and work at the trade , that reason has forever passed away if it ever was more than a trade gild superstition . |
| 54 | In the meantime , the director who would have done it , who is a name director , has asked me to go and work at the RSC because she 's now busy for exactly that period of time . |
| 55 | ‘ I should like to go and look at the sea . ’ |
| 56 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 57 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 58 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 59 | Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there . |
| 60 | Yes , I 'll shall have to go and see at the traffic and find out what 's gone wrong . |