Example sentences of "[verb] at [pos pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dale is dominated at its lower end by two scars , Great Coum and Combe Scar , both carved out by the passing glaciers , while the sweeping fells of Barbondale mark the point at which the Dent fault has thrust the older Silurian gritstones thousands of feet above their original bed . |
| 2 | A more likely source is a curious deposit of fine black material in a fault below the waterfall in Mealy Gill ( spanned at its lower end by the railway bridge at the rail head , Coniston ) . |
| 3 | For a while Alina sat looking at her younger , unmarked self . |
| 4 | His mouth was hot as it explored her lips , his teeth nipping at her lower lip , sending exquisite frissons along her nerves until she let out a small gasp . |
| 5 | Flavia Sherman was white-faced with shock but she managed to smile at her younger son as he stood up . |
| 6 | Again , a story in Thucydides ( v.45 ) shows that the Council hears foreign ambassadors before the Assembly does ( Alcibiades persuades a Spartan delegation , after their first audience , which was with the Council , to deny at their later audience with the Assembly that they had full powers to treat with Athens ) . |
| 7 | Prentice slid off onto the grass and stood there , favouring his good leg , while Rory stretched and rubbed at his lower back . |
| 8 | He died at his elder son 's house in Wimbledon 17 March 1956 . |
| 9 | She chewed at her lower lip . |
| 10 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 11 | He scowled at her , as ever , but looked at her longer from under his shaggy white brows and one day soon after Christmas was moved again to comment how unlike his wife she was , the highest of compliments . |
| 12 | They both looked at their younger brothers and sisters , who stared blankly back . |
| 13 | Michael , waiting at the top , was silently cursing his father as he looked at his younger brothers ' little faces . |
| 14 | She bit at her lower lip , stifling a feeling of rising panic . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , when a stag mates with a hind , he first scrapes a hole in the ground Then he gets her head and shoulders down the hole , leaving her rear end sticking up in the air so he can sort of get at her easier like . ’ |
| 16 | She still woke often in the night full of strange forebodings , but with the Reverend Baron to confide in and laugh at her wilder interpretations of what she had dreamed , she survived better . |
| 17 | He frowned , sucking at his lower lip . |
| 18 | He was tugging at his lower lip and walking slowly round Gabriel . |