Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holly heard him shift on his bunk and the mattress seemed to belch at the movement . |
| 2 | On the basis of this , it is submitted that the question of subsidiarity is essentially a political question for the Council , and if the Council decided to act at the Community level it would not be possible to challenge what it did simply on the basis that it could better have been done at the level of the Member States ; rather , it would be necessary to show a manifest error , a misuse of power or a clear passing of the limits of discretion , and it is submitted that the occasions when this might be done will be rare . |
| 3 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 4 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 5 | The knight had to swerve at the last moment to avoid a head-on collision with his opponent , but at the same time he had to couch his lance to his side as tightly as possible with his hand and under his arm so that the lance blow was struck with all the weight and momentum of his horse behind it , for if in swerving aside he moved his hand or used his arm to thrust at his opponent then a blow delivered in this manner would have no effect whatever . |
| 6 | The man continued to hack at the body , right down to the bone and intestines . |
| 7 | The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man . |
| 8 | Reshuffling its North America operations is , ZDS officials say , ‘ part of an effort to make the firm more responsive to the personal computer Unix-based market worldwide … the company had to start at the heart of the problem the bureaucracy in the company . ’ |
| 9 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 10 | The bag came to rest at the small of her back . |
| 11 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |