Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The two-day conference was organised in an attempt to inform the current public debate and arrive at conclusions about the best way forward . |
| 10 | We always enjoyed watching the Mah Jong players too , in the cafés and restaurants , and seated at tables on the waterfront . |
| 11 | Sad Joanna told detectives she dreaded the thought of eating and drinking at parties over the holiday period . |
| 12 | You can use it to point and click at things on the screen , open menus , select from lists , mark areas of text , and even edit them . |
| 13 | At a further press conference on Jan. 19 the opposition parties produced Maj. József Vegvari , an officer in the State Security Service who identified himself as the source of the leaked information , who alleged that reports compiled as a result of the surveillance operation had regularly been passed to senior HSP members and discussed at meetings of the Council of Ministers . |
| 14 | Basin development associated with north-south extension was initiated with Permo-Triassic rifting and continued at intervals through the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous . |
| 15 | He had a big room on the second floor of the house at Strathspeld ; we 'd played here as kids , making models , fighting wars with toy soldiers and the train set and Airfix tanks and forts made from Lego ; we 'd conducted experiments with our chemistry sets , raced our Scalextric cars , flown gliders out the window down to the lawn and shot at targets in the gardens with our air rifles and killed a couple of birds and smoked a few packets of illicit fags from the same window . |
| 16 | Regarding Afghanistan ( on which there had been speculation that an agreement on a ceasefire was imminent , in view of recent political developments in the country and an unexpected visit by President Najibullah to Moscow in the week preceding the Irkutsk talks ) , both sides agreed on the need for elections , but remained at odds over the transition process . |
| 17 | In the middle of the spectrum are those rare books that are rooted in some sort of evidence while looking at humans as the fascinating evolutionary product that they are . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll be counting seals and looking at reindeer as well as looking at affects on the environment . |
| 19 | There was tenderness , there was compassion , there was kindness , there was love , though obscured at times by the harder angles of his constantly changing Cancerian character . |