Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 2 | Public sector workers tried to hit at the state with minimum disruption of services to consumers . |
| 3 | Boys 14 and 15 once tried to sit at the back of the coach but were rapidly sent to the front where , it was said , ‘ they always sat ’ . |
| 4 | The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man . |
| 5 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 6 | The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket . |
| 7 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 8 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 9 | In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin . |
| 10 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 11 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 12 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 13 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
| 14 | The orientation of sCD2 is chosen relative to a cell surface assumed to lie at the bottom of the illustration in the plane normal to the vertical . |
| 15 | Serfdom seemed to lie at the root of many of their own frustrations , to preclude progress , be it economic , social , or political . |
| 16 | A dun-grey monster , very similar in appearance to the fabled LOCH NESS MONSTER , believed to live at the bottom of the thousand-foot deep Loch Morar . |
| 17 | When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick , crunchy lace , the severe black camisole she wore beneath it , but he merely murmured , ‘ Punctual as always . |
| 18 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 19 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 20 | Amdahl hopes to eventually supplement its dwindling mainframe income with revenue from these Sparc-based machines , expected to ship at the end of 1993 . |
| 21 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 22 | Councillors agreed to look at the possibility of closing off Roedowns Road to help with possible traffic-flow problems . |
| 23 | The wires of the fence were eventually replaced with mesh , and Halima having tried once , and finding that her leg did not go through , ceased to paw at the fence for oats . |
| 24 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 25 | She half turned to look at the figure beside her and this proved a near fatal mistake . |
| 26 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 27 | From time to time he turned to shout at the girl behind him . |
| 28 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 29 | ‘ Good girl , ’ Lacuna said absently , and returned to sit at the bank of screens . |
| 30 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |