Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe . |
| 2 | Next is the graphic equaliser , also switchable in or out , with a powerful 15 dB of boost or cut at the 7 well-chosen frequency centres of 50Hz , 100Hz , 230Hz , 500Hz , 1kHz , 2kHz and 5kHz . |
| 3 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 4 | The tentacle scales may be distinct from the oral papillae being either separated by a gap or placed at a higher level as viewed from the ventral side as in the genera Ophiotoma and Ophioblenn . |
| 5 | The breeze rattled Eochaid 's springing black hair over his ears and pulled at the ends of his lashes . |
| 6 | Ruth lowered her eyes and clutched at the banister of the stairs . |
| 7 | Despite the lines of exhaustion bracketing his mouth and etched at the outer corners of his eyes , his gaze gleamed dangerously . |
| 8 | At the end of each row was the monitor who marked the attendance which , if regular , entitled you to a Prize at the end of the year , a book chosen from a list by the recipient and presented at the Annual Service on Low Sunday . |
| 9 | Inmos Ltd finally launched the long-delayed T9000 Transputer on Friday and hinted at the next generation ‘ Chameleon ’ technology . |
| 10 | This stage version was directed in Britain by Sir Tyrone Guthrie and performed at the Edinburgh Festival and in London in 1954 . |
| 11 | Then I turned out the light and settled at the window amidst the bottle-brush fronds of monkey-puzzle . |
| 12 | Carefully , she slid her left leg off the table , and over to the tray , the leg almost on its side and bent at the knee to reach the tray , which was almost level with her hip . |
| 13 | She rocked back on her heels and clutched at the bureau for support . |
| 14 | For instance , it must be at an undervalue and made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts , the company must be in the course of being wound up in England or subject to an administration order , and so on . |
| 15 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 16 | As the sea flooded around them , the boy grabbed an axe and hacked at the slithery tentacles . |
| 17 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a good performance , plotted and delivered with artistry and skill and aimed at an audience . |
| 19 | Freestyle Ramps will provide the ramp , in the form of a brand new big vert job , which will then be shipped back to England and used at the Town and Country show this year as well . |
| 20 | Optionally , fragments could be transcytosed across the enterocyte and presented at the basolateral membrane for immunocompetent cells , maybe initiating a pathological response in coeliac patients . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 23 | The campaign will be launched in January and reinforced at the Area Service Conference in February . |
| 24 | He matriculated at Glasgow University in 1797 , but left without a degree and studied at the theological college of the associated synod in Selkirk , under George Lawson [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Bigwig went a little way down the run and stopped at the entrance to a large burrow . |
| 26 | Mystery also surrounds the brief existence of a rival non-governmental body , the All-Russian Famine Relief Committee , set up in July and dismantled at the end of August 1921 . |
| 27 | , Isaac ( d. 1699 ) , Hebrew scholar and bibliophile , was born in Spain and taken at an early age to Hamburg . |
| 28 | The -300 Sal 5'ESV and -300 Sal 3'ESV constructs contain a 220bp NcoI-PvuII fragment from the SV40 enhancer which was modified by addition of linkers to either a BamHI fragment or a SalI fragment and placed at the 5' and 3' end of the -300 Sal construct , respectively . |
| 29 | The book by Bram Stoker and published at the end of the last century has sold over a million copies . |
| 30 | Remembering what Garvey had said about comforting the sick dame , Gabriel leapt to the end of the play and snatched at the only words that seemed the right ones for these poor corpses , these walking dead : |