Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glances back at the stones of the air shaft . |
| 2 | The little hamlet of San Felice lies virtually at the gates of Siena . |
| 3 | Corrosion within heating systems gradually eats away at the insides of steel radiators to form iron oxides — the brown or black sludge that is so familiar to any d-i-y plumber . |
| 4 | Havelock Ellis said , ‘ A worm gnaws periodically at the roots of women 's life . ’ |
| 5 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 6 | ‘ You can also find that grass dies back at the edges of the slot . ’ |