Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 2 | The court may give him help , certainly ; for instance by discovery of documents inter partes … ; by allowing evidence to be obtained or presented at the trial in various ways … ; and by the issue of subpoenas … |
| 3 | The use of a picture taken inside the Ministry of Sound club in our article on the drugs Ecstasy and Ketamine ( April 3 ) was intended merely to show young people in a club and was not intended to suggest that drugs are permitted or used at the Ministry of Sound . |
| 4 | If your figure is accurate , a government health warning should be hung above every sink and ironing board , or printed at the foot of marriage certificates . |
| 5 | There are landmarks and turning points in the movement 's evolution but few paintings that demand to be considered or discussed at the expense of others . |
| 6 | As a condition of this appointment you are required to accept that if the appointment is not renewed or extended at the end of the period referred to you will not be entitled to claim any rights to complain of unfair dismissal under the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 , as amended , which authorizes the exclusion by agreement of any such claim in the case of an appointment for a period of one year or more . |
| 7 | Slaves , as property , were under the absolute power of their owners ; they could be bought , sold or traded at the whim of the master , and were occasionally awarded as prizes in lotteries , or wagered at gaming tables . |
| 8 | A balance sheet ( an example of which is shown in Fig. 2.2 ) , or statement of financial position , shows the assets owned or controlled at the date of the balance sheet and how they are financed . |
| 9 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 10 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 11 | For his pains , he was treated disrespectfully by guest players and placed at the centre of the most distasteful charade ever seen on an English first-class cricket field . |
| 12 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 13 | Nathan passed through the curtain and stopped at the top of the steps . |
| 14 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 15 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 16 | Bigwig went a little way down the run and stopped at the entrance to a large burrow . |
| 17 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 18 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 19 | Her remains were stolen and hidden at the foot of an oak tree in this valley , to be eventually found , in the familiar manner of such discoveries , by an inquisitively rooting ox , whose horns at once lit indicatively up . |
| 20 | Here n i is the number of times the ith symmetry species appears in Γ y , h is the order of the point group ( equal to the total number of symmetry operations , and given at the head of the character table ) , g r is the number of equivalent symmetry operations of type R , and Xi ( R ) is the character listed for operation R for this symmetry species in the character table . |
| 21 | Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance . |
| 22 | Repayments are in ten instalments beginning six years after the date of borrowing and completed at the end of the tenth year after borrowing . |
| 23 | St Michael 's Church — ‘ a gem of Baroque Moravian architecture ’ — was firmly shut and St Wenceslas Cathedral , founded in 1109 and rebuilt at the end of the last century on a vast neo-Gothic scale , was dark , impressive and so cold inside it made your head ache . |
| 24 | The priest blessed them , then gave the word , and with a roar , knives unsheathed , the front ranks of the crowd rushed the dais and slashed at the wood of the Virgin 's triumphal car and , shouting aloud , carried it off in fragments ; she continued to look upon it all unmoved from her new perch , and someone came back glorying in his spoils — was it her uncle , or her mother 's father ? — with splinters for each of the family and a chunk the size of a brick for himself . |
| 25 | But after a minute he let his hands drop and picked at the rubbish in the bin . |
| 26 | Carol smiled thinly in response and picked at the piece of toast on her plate . |
| 27 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 28 | Her long hair , shining gold , was swept back and caught at the nape of her neck with a bow , make-up , expertly applied , accentuated the classically beautiful lines of her face , and she wore her well-cut suit with all the panache that was expected of her . |
| 29 | No need for a hat , but the hair must be pulled off the face to minimise distraction and caught at the nape in a black band into which she would stick a single green feather . |
| 30 | In the mid-seventh century , Dagobert II , one of the central figures in the mystery of Rennes-le-Château , was raised and educated at the monastery of Slane , just north of what is now Dublin . |