Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 2 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 3 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 4 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 5 | He was unexpectedly a man of great gaiety and to see him at a dance was an absolute delight . |
| 6 | When he got there , he pulled an enormous bell-mouthed gun — I imagine it was a blunder-buss — from his belt and levelled it at the monster . |
| 7 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 8 | We jumped out and met him at the rear of the vehicle and tried to show him a letter of introduction from the Algerian Ambassador to Britain , Lakhdar Brahimi . |
| 9 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 10 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 11 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 12 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 13 | Alex attended a similar establishment for boys ten miles away and visited her at every weekend exeat . |
| 14 | She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly . |
| 15 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 16 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 17 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 18 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 19 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 20 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 21 | They followed Fiver up the run and overtook him at the entrance . |
| 22 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 23 | He took the kettle from its hook above the fire and filled it at the sink . |
| 24 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 25 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 26 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 27 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 28 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 29 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 30 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |