Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He carried Wynne-Jones on his back ; the old man beat at the thorns with his stick , one arm held tightly around his son 's neck . |
| 2 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 3 | ( We can sometimes stop a crack by increasing its tip radius — it is fairly common to see holes drilled at the ends of cracks in glass and Perspex in the hope of preventing the crack from spreading any further . ) |
| 4 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 5 | I have seen too many offenders laughing at the courts for their weaknesses , too many malcontents exploiting the absence or inadequacy of the law , and too many criminals making the cool assessment that the risk of detection is well worth taking . |
| 6 | He was educated at the colleges of Leamington and Llandovery ( Carmarthenshire ) , entered Trinity College , Cambridge , and took his BA degree in 1857 and MA in 1867 . |
| 7 | Although educated at the universities of Granada and Madrid , he distrusted purely intellectual emphases , and poured scorn on the idea of the Muses — albeit the most lovable and influential of creatures ! |
| 8 | When the stress at the ends or edges of the joint reaches the strength of dry casein therefore , cracks appear at the edges of the joint which immediately produce their own private local concentrations of stress , and so the cracks run through the middle of the joint , much as they would in glass . |
| 9 | All over the City , people were killing each other , having torrid affairs in seedy motel rooms , stealing bodies from the morgue , working late on revolutionary inventions , hiding out from the cops , waiting for the locksmith , running numbers , rock ‘ n ’ rolling at the high-school hop , praying at the bedsides of white-haired mothers , looking for the uranium in the wine cellar , describing their dreams to sage psychoanalysts , rehearsing for the big show , escaping across the rooftops . |
| 10 | Four point charges of equal magnitude are located at the corners of a square as shown in Fig. 2.42 . |
| 11 | I am used to the wind 's deep-throated shouts as it tears at the corners of our cottage in Cornwall , as it cracks branches and sweeps up leaves . |
| 12 | Modern F&B managers would delight at the instructions to waitresses to ‘ only half fill the Cups with Coffee ( unless asked to fill them up ) and add Boiled Milk but do not quite fill the Cups ’ , or , for dinner , ‘ Begin at Right end of each Division and with a Bill of Fare held in front of each Person , at each course , ask , naming the article , what they will have . ’ |
| 13 | When the labourers around Arundel rioted in 1549 , although their main grievances were economic , they also protested at the changes in the familiar rituals . |
| 14 | The go-ahead is expected to be given for camera surveillance equipment to be installed at the exits of the Cathedral multi-storey car park in Durham city centre in a bid to cut car crime . |
| 15 | When he appeared before the magistrate at lowly Clerkenwell , charged with ‘ willfully ringing several door bells and knocking at the doors in Upper Street , Islington , without lawful excuse ’ it was said that this kind of mischief — like the Cremorne Gardens affray — was a ‘ frequent occurrence ’ . |
| 16 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 17 | Antoine smiled at such madness , winced at the fires in his brain . |
| 18 | And it was the end of the road for former council chairman Archie McAuley , who crashed at the polls after 32 years on the council . |
| 19 | The lead managers of all Heron 's bonds are to meet at the offices of Credit Suisse in Zurich on Monday to plan a concerted response after hearing outline proposals from the company in London last Friday . |
| 20 | Nicholas Luard and the other members of the group were particularly concerned about the planting of conifers at Bara Ceirch farm as it stands at the headwaters of the Rivers Cothi and Towy , two of the finest salmon rivers in Wales . |
| 21 | Four key stages in a child 's education are defined , ending at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 . |
| 22 | She saw his glance go over her , ending at the tips of her sensible shoes , and wondered if she was in for some punishing ten-mile hike . |
| 23 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 24 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 25 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 26 | The centre of the action is the Castle , and you do n't want the adventurers dying at the hands of a bunch of miserable Orcs before they get there ! |
| 27 | The ultimate obsessional tragedy , of course , was John Lennon dying at the hands of superfan Mark Chapman outside his New York apartment building . |
| 28 | Léonie peered at the pockmarks in the red surface . |
| 29 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 30 | I peered at the photographs on the dressing table . |