Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He flung the contract at the feet of the American . |
2 | We can wade the river at the shallows . |
3 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
4 | Just time for a cup of coffee , she thinks , but she will have to make it herself as the office is short staffed , with the Corporal Clerk away representing the Corps at the celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the Queen Mother being appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports . |
5 | As they approached the workshop at the Piggeries — there had been no pigs there since her grandfather 's day — she saw the clump of men , half turned away , appearing uninterested . |
6 | The award was collected on behalf of the company by Chris Elsmore , who created the design at the studios in Elderslie , Chris has worked for the company for four years and was trained in embroidery at Loughborough College of Art and Design . |
7 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
8 | Litchfield , who had kept Scunthorpe in the competition by saving a late penalty in the game at Glanford Park , almost gave this one away in the opening minutes when he dropped the ball at the feet of Ronnie Futcher . |
9 | When we talk about paradoxical conflict , we can expect the conflict at the margins we , in other , if we made er , if we made er kind of diagram of the parents ' self interest in providing parental investment and the offspring 's self interest in demanding parental investment , we find that there are large areas of overlap . |
10 | Another way of putting it , and this may be the section 's true significance , is that the section provides the directors with a defence in the event of their making a decision that favours the employees at the shareholders ' expense . |
11 | We dragged the man free and Warren drove the car at the dogs to box them in the alleyway so they could not escape . |
12 | Bend the arms at the elbows . |
13 | Crowds of more than 700 filled the club at the weekends and under-eighteens had their own room , so bands usually played two sets a night . |
14 | Gertrude Jekyll had not been available to design the garden at The Tamarisks when Lutyens had been drawing up plans for the house , but she was shown these plans and her advice was sought . |
15 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
16 | Mr Bartell says the record at the Wolds , run by Group 4 , is disgraceful . |
17 | These two lines of super absorbent material work like dams , holding liquid back so that none of it ever reaches the elastic at the legs . |
18 | She threw the sponge at the taps in disgust , and registered the peal of the doorbell at the same time . |
19 | ‘ Ah good , ’ he said cheerily , trying in a manly way to calm the frenzy of my wrath , ignoring the foam at the corners of my mouth . |
20 | She fired the gun at the raiders from just four feet away when she went to help the threatened landlord at Knebworth , Hertfordshire , in December 1990 . |
21 | The two wings of authority had accepted defeat and then joined the workforce at the windows . |
22 | Polly did n't understand the bitterness at the corners of his mouth . |
23 | During this time couples may have to buy the necessary equipment , reorganise the house , hand in a resignation , visit the child at the foster-parents ' or arrange to take a direct placement immediately at delivery and room-in on the postnatal ward . |
24 | But we are in no doubt that , if the electorate fails to pardon the Conservatives at the polls today , it will pay a price at the hands of a Labour government , perhaps sustained by the Liberal Democrats , which will set back this country a generation . |
25 | There was enough drama at Bristol to rival the excitment at the Lords test yesterday . |
26 | Large plants and containers make this impractical , and it is then a case of loosening the soil-ball at the sides with a stick pushed down against the inside wall of the container . |
27 | Be sure to do the bits at the ends of the chapters . |
28 | Meanwhile the Toshiba Divisional Championship moves into its second phase with the holders , London , playing host to the South-West at Imber Court while the Midlands entertain the North at The Reddings . |
29 | The latter initiates the search at the shelves and the former completes the search at the shelves . |
30 | ‘ Tell the world , ’ urged the citizens at the barricades . |