Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 2 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 3 | He presided at the councils of Piacenza and Clermont ( 1095 ) , and preached with fervour war against the infidel , for the defence of Christendom and the recovery of the holy places . |
| 4 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 5 | Of the 120,000 people who attended the three day meeting last year , 33 suffered at the hands of pickpockets despite a huge police crime prevention campaign . |
| 6 | Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead . |
| 7 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 8 | The Rev. John Kingdon , the Baptist minister , had two other ceremonies to perform that day , as he also officiated at the burials of Mary Whiting , aged 77 , and a deaf and dumb girl of 45 years , Christiana Yerbury . |
| 9 | He gestured at the bodies of Rodomonte and Molassi . |
| 10 | ‘ They still could not make the dogs let go and so they got in their car and drove at the dogs with headlights flashing , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 11 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 12 | The other gunners ignored him ; instead they slashed at the traces with swords or knives , eventually freeing the four live horses which galloped wild-eyed towards Gemioncourt . |
| 13 | The Queen looked drawn and unsmiling as she arrived at the games with Prince Philip , Prince Edward and the Queen Mother . |
| 14 | Believe it or not Numerate arrived at the stables of Tania 's father , Peter , yesterday . |
| 15 | Then , in the winter of 1085 , Alfonso arrived at the gates of Saragossa and laid siege to the city . |
| 16 | He usually guessed at the contents of letters , and stood around waiting for his guesses to be confirmed . |
| 17 | Froth bubbled at the corners of Kenamun 's mouth . |
| 18 | She glanced at the books in front of her , then at her watch . |
| 19 | The mixture of religious vocabulary with philosophical ‘ idea/ reality ’ , and sexual vocabulary ( ‘ desire/ spasm ’ ) hopelessly rearrange the elements discovered at the roots of religion . |
| 20 | Pigs too were taken to sanctuaries to recover , as the RSPCA worked at the farms for days on end , work which eventually cost the RSPCA £15,000 . |
| 21 | Historians agree they then died at the hands of Stalin . |
| 22 | He died at the hands of cowards who hide behind masks and get away with murder . |
| 23 | In the 1970s more than one million Cambodians died at the hands of Pol Pot of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 24 | Wood 's attempt to clear a back pass fell at the feet of Norris , who sidefooted into the net . |
| 25 | Somebody crossed in from the right , Lukic blocked a shot from Sheron , but the ball fell at the feet of Flitcroft who could n't really miss . |
| 26 | Killion stared at the rounds in Woolley 's dirty hands and said nothing . |
| 27 | ‘ Where 've you jokers been ? ’ asked one of them , as he stared at the bits of tree hanging off us . |
| 28 | Grimma stared at the pictures of levers with numbers on . |
| 29 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 30 | Cleo stared at the contents with dismay . |