Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 2 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 3 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 4 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 5 | Owen never ceased to marvel at the way in which he combined incredible ingenuity within the rules with total lack of curiosity as to what went on beyond them . |
| 6 | The front of her hair was flattened by a battery of pearl clips and left to rise at the back in styrofoam peaks . |
| 7 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 8 | He wanted to arrive at the Stasis in a calm frame of mind ; he wanted to settle himself and prepare for it . |