Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his death at the hands of a Skaven assassin in 1152 the Elector Counts failed to reach a decision as to who should be the new Emperor . |
| 2 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 3 | The occupation did nothing except to fuel the sense of outrage the Italians felt about their treatment at the hands of the older powers . |
| 4 | I spend much of my time at the shops ; wandering through the aisles , faltering , never knowing what to buy . |
| 5 | Needless to say , I walked out of my job at the kennels . |
| 6 | Other writers also complained of their treatment at the hands of benefactors , even when this had nothing to do with dedications . |
| 7 | Anyone who watched the drubbing poor Neil Lyndon received for his attack on extreme feminism , No More Sex War , and has a taste for more of the same will relish Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man ( Weidenfeld , February , £8.99 , 0 297 81216 5 ) , in which David Thomas reveals the fruits of his researches into how The Guys have been Really Hurting because of their treatment at the hands of women lately . |
| 8 | That 's why they want to reassure them of their treatment at the Police station . |
| 9 | They are Alexander the Great ; the Silver Shields ( a Macedonian corps d'élite of the early hellenistic period ) ; and the Spartans up to the date of their defeat at the hands of the Thebans at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 10 | If Senna becomes champion , and to do it he must win in Japan and Australia , then Prost 's recent criticism of his treatment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to mind regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document , signed by all sides and designed to give the impression that all is sweetness and light . |
| 11 | Carter had done his best in his campaign to capitalize on this negative mood , yet the margin of his success at the polls had been small . |
| 12 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 13 | At the moment New Yorkers can survey the length and breadth of his achievement at the galleries of the Americas Society on Park Avenue and coming up in January they can have a second look in a big retrospective of the artist 's work at the Studio Museum in Harlem . |
| 14 | The nation was horrified as details emerged of his ordeal at the hands of the Provisional IRA . |
| 15 | A paperboy has been telling of his ordeal at the hands of a gunman . |
| 16 | Insiders also say the presence of his wife at the meetings contributed to his decision to pull out . |
| 17 | She had said those words to him many times , reminding him of his indoctrination at the hands of Por Tanssie 's officials . |
| 18 | ( e ) where a person is in police detention in one police area and his arrest is sought in another area and he is taken to that area for questioning , the relevant time is : ( i ) the time of his arrival at the police station in the second area , ( ii ) the time 24 hours after he leaves the police station in the first area , whichever is the earlier . |
| 19 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |
| 20 | ‘ Someone 's been splashing out at Woolworths , ’ said O'Hara , tapping with his hook at the pearls . |
| 21 | Then , to shape the ends and create an up-to-the-minute feeling , place the brush on top of the hair and flick out with your wrist at the ends . |
| 22 | I do think that the struggle for national liberation , certainly in my country at the times when we were most successful in that struggle , were the times when more opportunities were opened up for my own liberation and my own freedom of choice as a woman . |
| 23 | It is exactly the equality before the law , which Ms Pith-Helmet invests with so much trust , that has betrayed blacks and Asians in the courts , in their treatment at the hands of vicious and prejudiced police ( that has resulted in the death of 10 blacks at the hands of police during the course of arrest and interrogation in the last 15 years ) , that allows black and Asian homes to be terrorised by racist thugs who can sprinkle liberally their British hospitality in the form of firebombs , beatings , excrement dumped on doors , and children bullied to the point of suicide and madness . |
| 24 | More than 200 people attended the celebration of Romsey Branch 's 21st Anniversary , held by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Trevor Harris in their garden at The Frenchies on Sunday 19 June . |
| 25 | Many Japanese identified with Germany and Italy in their resentment at the privileges of older established powers . |
| 26 | The 20C has not been kind to the Jews and the community in Prague has never recovered from its suffering at the hands of the Nazis . |
| 27 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 28 | For them " the splendid utterance of the divine in all mankind " had been definitively expressed over a thousand years previously in the way of life and teaching of Jesus Christ in Palestine , in his death at the hands of violently destructive men and in his restoration in life with the source of all being , God . |
| 29 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 30 | Waking in his room at the week-ends , Sandra was there beside him , her head against his shoulder , the sun-bleached hair half-covering her ears ; the warm curve of her body shuddered a little when he stroked it , his fingers traced round the freckles on her shoulder , islands on an ocean of tanned skin . |