Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 2 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 3 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 4 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 5 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
| 6 | She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years . |
| 7 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 8 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 9 | The front of her hair was flattened by a battery of pearl clips and left to rise at the back in styrofoam peaks . |
| 10 | The marines were acting as extras and kept jeering at the Hollywood phoneys . |
| 11 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |