Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a baby , playing with plastic beakers on the edge of a volcano , or shuddering at tales of the Big Bad Wolf while monstrous murderers sharpened their knives at the door . |
| 2 | Her favourite was listening to jazz , either live at one of her regular haunts , Ali 's Alley or the Village Vanguard , or sitting at home with the headphones on , listening to the likes of David Sanborn or the Yellowjackets . |
| 3 | Scholars , disciples , stone-carvers and holy artistic men of every kind taught or studied at Clonmacnoise over the centuries . |
| 4 | The English Copernican John Wilkins also found it necessary to revise concepts of biblical authority in order to make room for scientific propositions that seemed at odds with the plain meaning of Scripture . |
| 5 | But over and above other factors such as the growing disenchantment , after long experience , with the Auld Alliance , and the beginning of awareness that living at peace with the English might be better than suffering the massive destruction inflicted during the Rough Wooing , there was one compelling new element : Protestantism . |
| 6 | Informalisation or permissiveness is seen as involving increasingly less regulation and less formality over rules of conduct , a relaxation in standards that seems at odds with the civilising movement identified by Elias . |
| 7 | ‘ Quite , ’ said Dotty , and winked at Grace in the mirror . |
| 8 | Concealed lighting made it seem so naturalistic that Alexandra almost expected to smell the salt and hear the cry of the seagulls which dipped and swooped at intervals around the walls . |
| 9 | It concerns my great-aunt Jane Bayles , who was my father 's mother 's sister and lived at Hury at the bottom of the dale . |
| 10 | ‘ All the transactions of goods loaded and off-loaded at Strasbourg in the last ten days . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ At first her thoughts would wander aimlessly , like her greyhound , which ran in circles , yapping after yellow butterflies , chasing field-mice and nibbling at poppies on the edge of a cornfield . |
| 12 | They will not go into the store where the eager young men and women modelling their smocks will sell them something expensive , attractive and useful that you have long tossed and turned at night in the lust to have in your possession . |
| 13 | Battle and bloodshed and betrayal lay behind them , and now they met peacefully in this large house , and slept peacefully in their separate rooms , and met at weekends over the marmalade , and would continue to do so until Charles 's new appointment took him , in a couple of months , to New York . |
| 14 | She refused to put up with her husband 's moods , and commented at length on the ways in which her skill as a household manager had been undervalued in the past . |
| 15 | Instead he took the opportunity to read the files again and look at extracts from the visual record — films taken throughout the eight years of Kim 's stay within the Recruitment Project . |
| 16 | He came out of hospital in January 1963 , and convalesced at home for the next few weeks . |
| 17 | While mundane scientists poke and prod at nature with the tools of experiment , astronomers on their mountains simply observe her , in all her heavenly glory . |
| 18 | Daniel Buren , undoubtedly Monsieur Rayure if ever there was one , installs and intervenes at Weber until the 22nd . |
| 19 | But tension remains high and bricks for the new Hindu temple , each inscribed with Lord Rama 's name , are being baked and blessed at ceremonies around the country . |
| 20 | The executive jet took off from Cork airport and landed at Dublin in the late afternoon . |
| 21 | Many framework knitters were said in 1778 to work from 5 a.m to 10 p.m. in summer , but this was considered a departure from the more usual start at 6 a.m and finishing at dusk in the winter . |
| 22 | The failed short-list candidates are surrounded by increasing circles of other disappointed souls : to continue our horseracing imagery , the front-runners are followed by the minor placings , those who met the headhunter and talked at length about the opportunity , who were among the top ten , but not the top three or four . |
| 23 | As a result , the period begins at midnight on the named date , and expires at midnight of the last day in the period . |
| 24 | The two-day conference was organised in an attempt to inform the current public debate and arrive at conclusions about the best way forward . |
| 25 | This engine , ‘ Lion ’ was an 0-4-2 for the Liverpool & Manchester Railway , and had a remarkable career , much of it at Princes Dock , Liverpool , where it was used by the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board as a stationary boiler until it was discovered in almost original condition and restored at Crewe for the 1930 L & M R film ‘ The Titfield Thunderbolt ’ . |
| 26 | The person who had eavesdropped on the proposed intrigue performed Stratton 's job for him ; stole the jewel ; slid thereafter into the background ; and disposed at leisure of the superfluous pearls and the petty cash . |
| 27 | Mind you — - " she jerked her head in the direction of the Russell , which had recently returned from Plymouth and lay at anchor in the Pool , " 'E 's got a lot to answer for . |
| 28 | We always enjoyed watching the Mah Jong players too , in the cafés and restaurants , and seated at tables on the waterfront . |
| 29 | Father Poole raised his head and stared at Myles over the tops of his glasses . |
| 30 | The fractions containing reactivity against PT-gliadin only were pooled and stored at 4°C after the addition of sodium azide . |