Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] at the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’
2 He glances back at the stones of the air shaft .
3 The little hamlet of San Felice lies virtually at the gates of Siena .
4 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 .
5 There 's a great physicality to it , like when Lee 's bro Neil biffs away at the drums during ‘ Failure ’ .
6 A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ .
7 A leader without a party to go to , he nods and winks his way through the set crammed with seaside singalongs , while brother Scott grins cheesily at the girls during a knockabout ‘ Theme From The New Avengers ’ .
8 Havelock Ellis said , ‘ A worm gnaws periodically at the roots of women 's life . ’
9 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 .
10 ‘ You can also find that grass dies back at the edges of the slot . ’
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