Example sentences of "and [vb pp] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 5 | Nathan passed through the curtain and stopped at the top of the steps . |
| 6 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 7 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 8 | Bigwig went a little way down the run and stopped at the entrance to a large burrow . |
| 9 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance . |
| 14 | Repayments are in ten instalments beginning six years after the date of borrowing and completed at the end of the tenth year after borrowing . |
| 15 | St Michael 's Church — ‘ a gem of Baroque Moravian architecture ’ — was firmly shut and St Wenceslas Cathedral , founded in 1109 and rebuilt at the end of the last century on a vast neo-Gothic scale , was dark , impressive and so cold inside it made your head ache . |
| 16 | The priest blessed them , then gave the word , and with a roar , knives unsheathed , the front ranks of the crowd rushed the dais and slashed at the wood of the Virgin 's triumphal car and , shouting aloud , carried it off in fragments ; she continued to look upon it all unmoved from her new perch , and someone came back glorying in his spoils — was it her uncle , or her mother 's father ? — with splinters for each of the family and a chunk the size of a brick for himself . |
| 17 | But after a minute he let his hands drop and picked at the rubbish in the bin . |
| 18 | Carol smiled thinly in response and picked at the piece of toast on her plate . |
| 19 | Theda stepped back and caught at the back of her hair just as it came tumbling down over her shoulders . |
| 20 | Her long hair , shining gold , was swept back and caught at the nape of her neck with a bow , make-up , expertly applied , accentuated the classically beautiful lines of her face , and she wore her well-cut suit with all the panache that was expected of her . |
| 21 | No need for a hat , but the hair must be pulled off the face to minimise distraction and caught at the nape in a black band into which she would stick a single green feather . |
| 22 | In the mid-seventh century , Dagobert II , one of the central figures in the mystery of Rennes-le-Château , was raised and educated at the monastery of Slane , just north of what is now Dublin . |
| 23 | There are two chief types of tombs which date from the seventh to first century B.C. One type consists of a tumulus , or burial mound , of earth , circular in plan and surrounded at the base by a stone wall . |
| 24 | His skin had an olive hue , signifying foreign blood , and his indecently long hair was very black , worn in a multitude of thin braids and confined at the back of his neck . |
| 25 | Mr Stych stopped in his tracks at the mention of such a sum of money , as Hank had hoped he would , and looked at the boy as if he might have gone dangerously mad . |
| 26 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 27 | All these are inconsistent with ‘ living life ’ , the two words which are placed between inverted commas and imposed at the level of mere idea upon Notes from Underground , but which truly drive Raskolnikov , which are his need to become a man again . |
| 28 | Then he smiled as if savouring some secret joke and slumped at the end of the table so he could stretch his leg . |
| 29 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 30 | The coronation oath of Edgar is recorded for 973 : he swore first " that God 's Church and all Christian people of my realm shall enjoy true peace ; second , that I forbid to all ranks of men robbery and all wrongful deeds ; third , that I urge and command justice and mercy in all judgements " — pious words , perhaps , but solemn and binding , and made at the bidding of Archbishop Dunstan and laid on the altar at Bath . |