Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two brothers parted at the docks in Lothern . |
| 2 | Officers from the RSPCA say hundreds of animals suffered at the hands of a callous and inept man . |
| 3 | Some conservative commentators linked the bawdy songs performed at the café-concerts with the uprising of the Paris Commune , and censors were employed to recast the song material in a more harmless mould . |
| 4 | Dot clutched at the cuffs of her coat but even the familiar softness of worn velvet was not reassuring . |
| 5 | For a moment her eyes blurred at the memories of happy days , days of innocence . |
| 6 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 7 | We will ensure that all children have their memories for each of the foundation subjects tested at the ages of seven , 11 , 13 and 16 . |
| 8 | They want to replace ineffective reaction to the symptoms of trouble with positive action aimed at the roots of the problem . |
| 9 | There had been an unpopular decision made at the Lords in London , so gunmen here decided to shoot a lord , to set an example . |
| 10 | The fingers scooped at the pages as if there was a reference that was familiar . |
| 11 | There is some fibrin formed at the edges of the wound and at the plug periphery but no fibrin is seen within the plug for about 15–30 minutes . |
| 12 | Women in thick , serge dresses and wooden clogs gathered at the doors of their houses and watched us pass whilst half-naked children ran behind us , screaming in their patois for a sou or something to eat . |
| 13 | Panic licked at the corners of her mind . |
| 14 | Type III foci had by far the most unusual morphology : highly condensed , heavily piled upon one another , and criss crossed at the edges of the focus . |
| 15 | Tunes pulled at the hems of her train of thought . |
| 16 | The triangular shaped course used at the Olympics by both boats and windsurfers . |
| 17 | TAIF , Saudi Arabia — Lebanese members of parliament clutched at the threads of a peace plan yesterday after a brief period when agreement to end 14 years of civil war seemed within their grasp . |
| 18 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 19 | In loving detail , right down to the rancid smell of burnt onions from hamburger vans , Reid describes three days spent at the races with his charmingly unsavoury friends A. J. Kincaid , John Moynahan and the Major . |
| 20 | Finally , this approach can be used as an alternative to premethylation interference experiments whenever the strong positive charge introduced at the positions of methylation seems to influence DNA-protein interactions or binding equilibria . |
| 21 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 22 | Ulrich Barker 's house was along a still band of water broken at the edges by crowding mangroves . |
| 23 | Mountain ranges formed at the points of initial continental collision provide the sediment which accumulates in adjacent remnant-ocean basins ( Fig. 3.16(B) ) . |
| 24 | ( We can sometimes stop a crack by increasing its tip radius — it is fairly common to see holes drilled at the ends of cracks in glass and Perspex in the hope of preventing the crack from spreading any further . ) |
| 25 | A cruel smile played at the corners of his mouth . |
| 26 | Though a mocking smile played at the corners of his chiselled mouth , his voice had a caustic bite . |
| 27 | An amused smile played at the corners of his mouth . |
| 28 | Osgood gives considerable regard and space to a paper by Brown and Voth ( 1937 ) on apparent movement , in which an experiment is described where four lights disposed at the corners of a square are flashed on and off successively , going round the square . |
| 29 | He ran his eyes over the figures seated at the tables outside the pavement café and a twinge of fear ran through him . |
| 30 | With such beliefs the Society proved receptive to both the nativist anti-semitic tradition which had been focused on the anti-alien campaign in the East End of London between 1900 and 1905 , to the Marconi scandal before the First World War , and to international influences such as the White Russian anti-semitic propaganda directed at the Bolsheviks after 1918 . |