Example sentences of "and [verb] at the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 5 | This system was devised not just with political but with military arrangements in view , and this is another way in which city and countryside were brought together : the demes and trittyes were often arranged along , and clustered at the ends of , the strategic highways of Attica , thereby making for easy mobilization , with the agora of Athens as the place of muster . |
| 6 | She examines the connection between the curriculum and the deviance of boy and girl pupils and looks at the possibilities of combating sexist curricula . |
| 7 | ‘ I owe you an apology , ’ Donna said , pushing her plate away and dabbing at the corners of her mouth with a napkin . |
| 8 | She escaped to her own room and sat down on the bed , huddling in her damp raincoat and picking at the stitches of the band on her arm . |
| 9 | A quick end , rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall . |
| 10 | ’ At night we like to sit out and look at the views of the valley with a glass of wine . |
| 11 | A formal application for observer status at meetings of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) was made on April 6 , 1990 and approved at the heads of government meeting in Kingston , Jamaica , in July [ see p. 37648 ] . |
| 12 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 13 | Okay before we go on then and look at the roles of channels in biology , let's look at how channels are classified briefly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There have been various attempts to classify different corporate cultures and to look at the consequences of those types for the use of power ( see Deal and Kennedy ; Handy ) . |
| 16 | Youths dressed as demons careered across the road and yelled at the tops of their voices . |
| 17 | According to Mansbach and Vasquez , power politics have been replaced by ‘ issue ’ politics , where actors group and regroup at the intersections of political and economic issues . |
| 18 | The ion trajectories are deflected and focused at the edges of the shadow cone much like rain falls off an umbrella , as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 19 | The breeze rattled Eochaid 's springing black hair over his ears and pulled at the ends of his lashes . |
| 20 | He moved between us and looked at the bowls of deep colour , and little puffs of red and yellow dotted about the draining-board to dry . |
| 21 | Eight of the men came running out of the trees and heaved at the sides of the lorry . |
| 22 | Stung by her mockery , Frankie hung his head and stared at the remnants of his intended peace-offering . |
| 23 | He took a tinder , lit the candles on his desk and stared at the bundles of letters awaiting him . |
| 24 | The trash cans were big and had just been emptied , and in an instant the boys were off chasing the girls and yelling at the tops of their voices . |
| 25 | In his London Shadows Godwin even finds a function for the voyeurs who made it fashionable to tour the slums ‘ and wonder at the peculiarities of that strange land ’ , because ‘ it was partly owing to these visits that some improvements were carried into effect ’ . |
| 26 | He had walked , dishevelled and mud-plastered , out into the square from the coffee shop and thrown at the feet of the Captain those trophies that he had lifted from three different observation posts along the way . |
| 27 | PATIENTS at top-security Ashworth hospital have suffered a devastating decade of brutality and torture at the hands of sadistic staff , a report reveals today . |
| 28 | Fernando took the edge of the sheet and patted at the beads of vapour at her brow . |
| 29 | As a result of their ascetic lifestyle and their verbal assaults on their less godly neighbours , they were frequently subjected to ridicule and abuse at the hands of their contemporaries . |
| 30 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |