Example sentences of "and [verb] at [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means instead the end of childhood and freedom , the beginning of a new life as a slave and chattel at the bottom of a hierarchy in someone else 's family . |
| 2 | They are kindly , educated people many of whom have spent their lives helping others and to whom fate has dealt a cruel , unexpected blow , leaving them bereaved and frightened at a time of approaching frailty . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Owen Glendower , lord of Glyndyfrdwy and Cynllaith , and master of most of North Wales , came south that June into central Wales , his raiding parties materialising like shapes of flashing , thundery sunlight out of the rains and mists of the hills , and eating at the borders of the Mortimer lordships in Radnorshire . |
| 5 | He lit a cigarette and gazed at the page of his book until the printed words ceased to dance about . |
| 6 | It is the only tram in service where you have to climb up to your seat and sit at an angle of 20 degrees behind two spacemen in the front compartment ! |
| 7 | Protestantism 's strength and influence at the end of the nineteenth century is even harder to assess than that of Roman Catholicism , because of its diversity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She tripped , and tottered at the edge of the kerb . |
| 10 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 11 | She read some verses and not others , understood some lines and not others , and stopped at every mention of angels or children or weeping or suffering . |
| 12 | Nathan passed through the curtain and stopped at the top of the steps . |
| 13 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 14 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | well not posters , the horsewatch is a prime example where I wanted to look at setting a format in a particular way , and to sit at the side of either Alf or Tracey well now alter it to that or to that I 'm sure they 'd do it , but nevertheless it 's putting them off their work . |
| 17 | ‘ did fail to stop ’ , means did fail to stop immediately the accident happened and remain at the scene of the accident long enough , taking the prevailing conditions into account , to give his name and address and also the name and address of the owner and the identification marks of the vehicle ( Lee v Knapp [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 961 and Ward v Rawson [ 1979 ] Crim LR 58 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There were gasps and whistles at the magnitude of the figure . |
| 20 | We told them how our oldest member , 91-year-old Mr. Hunt , takes unfailing care of our security , and sits at the hub of the affair providing a whole intelligence service for us as well . |
| 21 | For the people of Pakistan to enjoy the huge benefits of heating and cooking at the press of a switch , then praise be to the Darlington firms of Head Wrightson and Whessoe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance . |
| 24 | We can find Rains at the Twentieth-Century Building , and Kruger at the Temple of Turhan Bey . ’ |
| 25 | When Edward III of England invaded France , John went to Philip 's aid and fought at the battle of Crecy where , as R.W. Seton-Watson describes it : ‘ giving the reins of his horse to two of his companions , and shouting the battle-cry of ‘ Prague' ’ , he charged into the thick of the fray and , blind as he was , soon went down fighting ( 26th August , 1346 ) . |
| 26 | There are also bugs on the glass , which are mainly free swimming and congregate at the top of the water . |
| 27 | Sounds — This section focuses on individual sounds or groups of sounds and practises them as they arise in common contexts ( e.g. the sounds / s / , / z / , and iz at the end of words ) . |
| 28 | Repayments are in ten instalments beginning six years after the date of borrowing and completed at the end of the tenth year after borrowing . |
| 29 | He sits on a very smoky-looking cloud and he laughs and laughs at the sight of copulation . |
| 30 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |