Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Frasque , that had seemed so desiccated and invulnerable , shrivelled and burned at the Capellans ' slightest gesture . |
| 2 | However , Baillie Cochrane explained that Scott 's first scheme had reception rooms ‘ on a magnificent scale ’ , but on the recommendation of the Select Committee they were omitted and reintroduced at the suggestion of Foreign Office officials as normal rooms which could be used for special occasions . |
| 3 | It caught and twisted at the heart , and there was no armour against it . |
| 4 | But her weeping window sill sheds tears of condensation , scarring the wall down to the carpet which has curled and crumbled at the edge . |
| 5 | This was foreseen by the local residents who objected and petitioned at the time planning permission was under consideration . |
| 6 | Poor Kodiak whined and scratched at the verandah door as we drove off . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He is finally met and defeated at the Battle of Osterwald . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In every case , the purchaser had visited and stayed at the site before buying . |
| 12 | ‘ However , the teeth were made and fitted at the beginning of June . |
| 13 | All bargains are registered and settled at the London Options Clearing House ( LOCH ) a wholly owned ISE subsidiary . |
| 14 | The handle is squared and flattened at the end which could mean that it was used as a pestle for grinding . |
| 15 | Tabitha turned and shoved at the passenger cabin door , which was stuck halfway . |
| 16 | His bones will go to Washington for study , his skin will be stuffed and exhibited at the Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico and the rest if there 's any left will be cremated . |
| 17 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 18 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 19 | The differential aspect means that an operational amplifier possesses a noninverting and an inverting input terminal , the sign of any signal applied between these terminals and the common rail being respectively preserved and reversed at the output . |
| 20 | Similarly , bees learn landmarks after taking off : a recruit who arrived and fed at the feeder , but was transported back to the hive while feeding , returned without the slightest memory of the landmarks she must certainly have seen on her arrival . |
| 21 | Also the procedures may be tapered and modified at the outset to meet the needs of the individual . |
| 22 | All new ideas need to be strongly challenged and tested at the planning stage and the marketing agnostic on the staff will often usefully worry out unsuspected flaws . |
| 23 | Which would be as good a way as any for me to get Rainbow off the premises , before those inhibitions of hers — which I 've left bound and gagged at the back of her wardrobe — work their knots out and come riding to the rescue . |
| 24 | But after a minute he let his hands drop and picked at the rubbish in the bin . |
| 25 | In the mid-seventh century , Dagobert II , one of the central figures in the mystery of Rennes-le-Château , was raised and educated at the monastery of Slane , just north of what is now Dublin . |
| 26 | There was a terrifying moment of confusion when faces loomed round the windows , voices bellowed and hands banged and battered at the roof of the car . |
| 27 | Status of all rooms , including those ready for use , can be displayed and adjusted at the Hotel Manager workstation . |
| 28 | The shallow oval profile is flattened and squared at the heel to match its recessed location in the body . |
| 29 | Because it is seen to be of little direct help to teaching , that knowledge and vocabulary is abandoned and left at the college gates as soon as the BEd exams are over . |
| 30 | Her remains were stolen and hidden at the foot of an oak tree in this valley , to be eventually found , in the familiar manner of such discoveries , by an inquisitively rooting ox , whose horns at once lit indicatively up . |