Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Browse at your leisure |
| 2 | Offers galore … browse at your leisure and you 're sure to find a bargain |
| 3 | The girl pops a spoon in my mouth , and then scrapes at my chin . |
| 4 | The rain beat at their eyes and the lurch of the uneven ground roller-coasted beneath them , jostling them in their saddles despite the grip of their tired knees . |
| 5 | She beat at her face , her bosom , her stomach , her hips , with hands which looked as if they were dripping with damson jam . |
| 6 | A greater fool than you could ever know , Shae thought dully , pain throbbing like a drum beat at her temples . |
| 7 | She beat at her brother 's head , causing him to screech with pain . |
| 8 | If I sleep at his house , he sleeps there . |
| 9 | She scratches at my skin , and asks again . |
| 10 | Dazzling lights knifed at her vision from the docking bay . |
| 11 | Virginia fixed him with a patient , expectant gaze across the desk , marvelling at her ability to stay calm and poised whenever the name of Guy Sterne entered the conversation these days . |
| 12 | Birthdays , children 's parties , weddings , Hallowe'en and Valentine 's Day are just some events that could see you searching for an unusual tin in which to bake a cake that will leave your guests or children marvelling at your skills . |
| 13 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 14 | How she wishes she were back in her snug little house , tapping away on her word-processor , dissecting the lexemes of some classic Victorian novel , delicately detaching the hermeneutic code from the proairetic code , the cultural from the symbolic , surrounded by books and files , the gas fire hissing and a cup of coffee steaming at her elbow . |
| 15 | The spaceman twiddled at his chest . |
| 16 | Mrs Jones was attacked at her home in the village of Hodson near Swindon all for the sake of sixty pounds . |
| 17 | Roy and Pauline Bridgeman were attacked at their home in Thorpe Road , Kirby Cross , at 9 pm on Sunday . |
| 18 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 19 | It is important to go through these documents in order to check what you have got , so that you will know at which stage they should be completed . |
| 20 | I regret that I do not know at what level the exemption was first introduced . |
| 21 | Do you yet know at what level that 's going to be organised ? |
| 22 | We do not know at what date Matilda had gone to Wilton , but probably she had come from Scotland as a young girl with her aunt Christina in 1086 to be educated at Wilton . |
| 23 | I did n't know at what rate I was now travelling and no longer bothered to work it out . |
| 24 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |
| 25 | That was not really convenient for me as I often did not know at what time I would return from saying Mass in the outstations . |
| 26 | She will know at what point domestic happiness begins to cloy , where love , tidiness , rent , rates , clothes , entertaining , and rings at the doorbell should stop , and will recognize that there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall . ’ |
| 27 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 28 | If you do n't know at your age , you should work it out . |
| 29 | until they fly at its point , in the keen |
| 30 | She has brought her up to make men fall at her feet in love with her and then to treat them roughly and to break their hearts . |