Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Idiot ! ’ she laughed , her heart thudding at his compliments . |
| 2 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's hot property for the Cebit computer fair in Hannover this year is the Active Badge system , an infra-red badge developed at its Cambridge research laboratory here in the UK and designed for access control and location applications . |
| 3 | Maggie was a bit shaken at his silence and knew she was once again blushing . |
| 4 | The problem remains of how to get the existing parliament to connive at its own demise . |
| 5 | From the pouch hanging at his belt he brought out a leather flask . |
| 6 | Certainly there can be no doubt that Islam looks at its most impressive in a great urban cathedral mosque , especially on an occasion like Id . |
| 7 | My mum dabbed at her eyes . |
| 8 | Trent came after him , right foot driving at his crotch but hitting his thigh as he rolled again . |
| 9 | Researchers of medieval settlements would do well , perhaps , to regard their scanty documentary references — often only the name and owner of a site at a particular date — in the same way that the Romanist looks at his sherds and the prehistorian his flint scatters . |
| 10 | West , like a great wave frozen at its point of turning under , lay the City , its walls soaring two li into the heavens . |
| 11 | How my heart sank at his words . |
| 12 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
| 13 | Jazzie looks at his hotel table , crowded with award statuettes . |
| 14 | A pedestrian zone also gives you the opportunity to wander at your leisure through the wide selection of shops . |
| 15 | The carp feeding around the inlet nudged at his fingers . |
| 16 | He bent his head and his hot mouth closed hungrily over her breast while she offered it to him with one hand , her head thrown back , eyes closed , surrendering to the hot , dark feel of his mouth sucking at her nipple . |
| 17 | They ‘ had a motor car placed at their disposal … and planned to arrive at Dennis ' home [ at Ancaster , near Sleaford ] at 9.30 , so as to have a glass that cheers , and then talk until midnight , the earliest time for signing . |
| 18 | The wind burbled at his ear like frantic drumming . |
| 19 | Then up and on again with the wild wind catching at his wings and he trying to control it , to hover and reorientate . |
| 20 | Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought . |
| 21 | And that 's truer than ever today , when even an ordinary family saloon is powered by a highly sophisticated engine that depends on the right lubrication to perform at its best . |
| 22 | The conception of the centrality of literature could be tacitly and uncontroversially assumed in a 1919 bulletin of the Association where the general goal of promoting " the exact study of our literature which the English Association has at its heart " is simply stated as self-evident . |
| 23 | Patricia Cochrane , the vice-principal of Lisburn Central Primary School , was found slumped in the car parked at her Banbridge home by her 20-year-old daughter Claire . |
| 24 | Each major department has at its headquarters a group of 100 or so civil servants , from the grade of ‘ principal ’ up to ‘ permanent secretary ’ , who are concerned with decisions of a ‘ policy ’ kind , many of which require ministerial approval . |
| 25 | There will be violation and jealousy of the resources or territory that another group or department has at its disposal . |
| 26 | The president has at his disposal an array of bargaining counters that he must ceaselessly and skilfully deploy in countless negotiating situations . |
| 27 | It is , for example , possible that those in the treated group who have succumbed are a particularly susceptible group within the whole ; whether that is likely will be more easily assessed when the data so far gathered by the study have been analysed to show the fate of subgroups , for example those with different CD cell counts at their recruitment . |
| 28 | Otherwise it was largely a stunt — the saxophonist acting like a contortionist while continuing to play , the bass-player straddling his instrument on the floor , as if he were raping it ; and it was de rigueur for the pianist to stand at his instrument , and play with one hand , thus giving himself freedom for muscular improvisation . |
| 29 | Once again tonight , uncertainty dithered at her heart . |
| 30 | Holly pushed his feet beneath the steel plate and the wind caught at his socks and trousers and drove a channelled wind against his legs and he cursed the awkwardness of his overcoat , and his feet kicked in the space like the feet of a hanging man . |