Example sentences of "with [noun sg] [noun] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Metal collars with long steel spikes were undoubtedly the favourite form of protection against throttling , although Punch ( 13 December 1862 ) also dreamt up ‘ great coats made a-la-porcupine … with spring daggers at the elbows and sharp spikes all up the back ’ in order to discourage attack from the rear . |
| 2 | Then , as if a dividing line had been drawn across the outskirts of the town , the scene changed : Ben was now driving the cart past terraced houses with lace curtains at the windows , and the bath-bricked steps leading to painted front doors , with here and there a little maid scrubbing the steps , or sluicing the pavement outside the small railed gardens . |
| 3 | Support the slab in a dish with glass rods at the edges . |
| 4 | His jerkin was stained with dump patches at the armpits and chest . |
| 5 | In her essay ‘ Sculpture in the Expanded Field ’ , 5 art historian Rosalind Krauss explored ideas about categories in ways that might be useful to this discussion about textiles : ‘ over the last 10 years rather surprising things have come to be called sculpture : narrow corridors with TV monitors at the ends , large photographs documenting country hikes … categories like sculpture and painting have been kneaded and stretched and twisted in an extraordinary demonstration of elasticity , and display of the way in which a cultural term can be extended to include just about anything ’ . |