Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 2 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 3 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 4 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 5 | ‘ They reckoned without a DK with a death wish , ’ he roared , and started jabbing at the controls . |
| 6 | Bewildered , she slid into bed beneath a vast grey and emerald silk quilt , and lay staring at the patterns of light thrown on the ceiling by the white bedside lamp . |
| 7 | Individuals could and did suffer at the hands of individual kings . |
| 8 | Cézanne in particular had as a rule relied completely on visual models , and had looked at the subjects of his paintings with a concentration and intensity as great as that shown by the artists of the early Renaissance in their rediscovery of the natural world . |
| 9 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 10 | He went back to the piano and sat looking at the keys — afraid to play . |