Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symptoms , only hinted at by a headache earlier that could easily have been nothing , and by mild swelling that was normal in hot weather , had intensified with frightening suddenness , and Belinda was in no doubt about what it meant . |
| 2 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 3 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 4 | The content of courses varies widely , and is usually arrived at by the demands of the service . |
| 5 | ( i ) Without external evidence of date , the period of a mosaic is always arrived at by an extrapolation from the style of other pavements . |
| 6 | If Peter Greenaway 's camera is anything but a participating human representative , Gilbert 's is nothing else , addressed , ogled , and even winked at by the heroine . |
| 7 | " Significant progress " was reportedly made , resulting in a " broadening of the consensus " earlier arrived at by the UN Security Council . |