Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The front of the hurricane tore at the lower flanks of the mountains , rending great trees from the rain forest and tossing them aside as if they were little more than sticks . |
| 2 | These intermediate times show very clearly that all modes apart from the cycle had periods of fast or slow movement , whereas the bike continued at a consistent pace . |
| 3 | The court heard one of the burglaries occurred at an old people 's home . |
| 4 | Below , the prisoners sat at the far side of a rank of yellow-decked tables , with their little visitors — women , kids , the old — ranged opposite on kitchen chairs . |
| 5 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
| 6 | The stick waggled at a great building nesting among its outhouses at the bottom of the village . |
| 7 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 8 | The hammer fell at the lower estimate of DM250,000 ( £625,000 ; $1 million ) for El Lissitzky 's mixed media work from the ‘ Proun ’ series ; it fell at DM110,000 ( £44,000 ; $70,400 ) , exceeding the reserve , for Sandor Bortnyik 's Cubist watercolour of a newspaper reader . |
| 9 | Behind them , the Monument leant at a crazy angle , its foundations undermined by the yawning pit beside it . |
| 10 | It was from this starting-point that the structuralists arrived at the radical view that all meaning in every sphere of human activity consists of closed systems wholly independent of the material world . |
| 11 | The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room . |
| 12 | The LDDC decided at an early stage that this figure should rise to 30 per cent or so , as a result of a house-building programme that was originally set at 13,000 houses within ten to fifteen years . |
| 13 | The superintendent gazed at the blank TV screen before suddenly turning to Franks , her eyes drained of laughter . |
| 14 | He was also a reformer and builder ; his reforms were far-reaching in administration and law while the arts flourished at a high level . |
| 15 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 16 | Late one night the telephone rang at the 24-hour office of a business travel company in London . |
| 17 | Beside him , the girl walked at the same pace , just out of step with him . |
| 18 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 19 | The girl started at the Royal High as an 11-year-old in 1986 . |
| 20 | The crash happened at a notorious accident blackspot . |
| 21 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 22 | Between April and June 1971 speculation against the dollar ran at an annual rate of $14 billion . |
| 23 | The Pastor gazed at the bare , raftered ceiling . |
| 24 | Only the boy looked at the two men sledging a length of iron on the outside anvil . |
| 25 | Similarly , the child fixated at the anal stage will develop an ‘ anal character ’ , whose most marked traits are said to be orderliness , parsimony and obstinacy . |
| 26 | Each of the poems looked at a different sort of love : that of parents and children , of friends , of lovers , of God … . |
| 27 | The recoil tore at the ripped muscles in his right arm and shoulder . |
| 28 | Emma Butler , 12 , was at a sports day with her family in May when the accident happened at the European School for children of nuclear scientists near Abingdon in Oxon . |
| 29 | In order to separate a lunar effect the team looked at the lunar day , the position of the Moon . |
| 30 | It was one of the tributes marking what would have been his fiftieth birthday , and as Paul Woodley now reports from New York , friends of the singer gathered at the United Nations to play the song as an anthem of peace . |