Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young man with a bad case of acne approached and pointed at the phone . |
| 2 | However , Baillie Cochrane explained that Scott 's first scheme had reception rooms ‘ on a magnificent scale ’ , but on the recommendation of the Select Committee they were omitted and reintroduced at the suggestion of Foreign Office officials as normal rooms which could be used for special occasions . |
| 3 | The fear of future unemployment , he believed , was exaggerated and existed at the moment " as a heavy legacy of dictatorship " . |
| 4 | But her weeping window sill sheds tears of condensation , scarring the wall down to the carpet which has curled and crumbled at the edge . |
| 5 | Ken Turk , the 67-year-old president and long time player for Hampshire club Hartley Wintney , collapsed and died at the wicket immediately after hitting a six against Shepherd 's Bush on May 3 . |
| 6 | A sixteen year old girl collapsed and died at the Hacienda in Manchester after ‘ dropping an E ’ . |
| 7 | He is finally met and defeated at the Battle of Osterwald . |
| 8 | Professor Martin Warnke , of Hamburg University , and Andreas Beyer , of the University of Bonn , met and talked at the symposium held in Hamburg on 30 March to mark the centenary of the birth of Erwin Panofsky . |
| 9 | Eventually Gnashrak is defeated and captured at the Battle of Broken Leg Gulley by a Dwarf army led by Lord Ungrim Ironfist of Karak Kadrin . |
| 10 | So , as part of the briefing process , Orpington employees and their families were taken on day trip coach tours to Stevenage so that they could visit the site where the new offices were being built and look at the types of houses and facilities available in the area . |
| 11 | In every case , the purchaser had visited and stayed at the site before buying . |
| 12 | ‘ However , the teeth were made and fitted at the beginning of June . |
| 13 | He looked at her derisively and left her to it , drinking the coffee he had made and sitting at the table . |
| 14 | Corbett and Ranulf , riding abreast , stopped and gazed at the chaos . |
| 15 | All bargains are registered and settled at the London Options Clearing House ( LOCH ) a wholly owned ISE subsidiary . |
| 16 | Her thoughts gathered and broke at the memory . |
| 17 | A crowd gathered and shouted at the police , provoking another baton charge which forced them down towards Butcher Gate and the Bogside . |
| 18 | The handle is squared and flattened at the end which could mean that it was used as a pestle for grinding . |
| 19 | Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head , but there was no mistaking her for Han . |
| 20 | The Echo recently featured an article about a young man who was mugged and robbed at the entrance to Everton Park on Netherfield Road . |
| 21 | They , too , checked and stared at the sight of the river . |
| 22 | His bones will go to Washington for study , his skin will be stuffed and exhibited at the Space Hall of Fame in New Mexico and the rest if there 's any left will be cremated . |
| 23 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 24 | She has watched and sighed at the conveyor belt of busted rackets and aspirations — as successive decades of dewy-eyed schoolgirls have emerged from the manicured suburban court retreats in the romantic search for more than strawberries at Wimbledon . |
| 25 | He moved around France quite a lot , and not only was he a soldier , but he was writing comic operas and operas , and musicals and so on , and some of his work was pro produced and performed at the Opera Comic , in in France . |
| 26 | The differential aspect means that an operational amplifier possesses a noninverting and an inverting input terminal , the sign of any signal applied between these terminals and the common rail being respectively preserved and reversed at the output . |
| 27 | This is bright red and is extruded and flickered at the enemy when the caterpillar is disturbed . |
| 28 | To locate T g , the linear portions are extrapolated and intersect at the point which is taken to be the characteristic transition temperature of the material . |
| 29 | Also the procedures may be tapered and modified at the outset to meet the needs of the individual . |
| 30 | All new ideas need to be strongly challenged and tested at the planning stage and the marketing agnostic on the staff will often usefully worry out unsuspected flaws . |