Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 2 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 3 | Even his new team-mate , the much-lamented François Cevert , won at the Glen in that car . |
| 4 | If you could n't afford the original records , there were smaller ones you could buy at the Woolworths in the King 's Road , which sounded quite like . |
| 5 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 6 | THE Rubber Bishops , pictured right and billed as ‘ probably the funniest double act in the country ’ , appear at The Institute in Skinnergate , Darlington , on Wednesday night . |
| 7 | Wintering birds first appear at the coast in August and September , and most have left by early April . |
| 8 | When the labourers around Arundel rioted in 1549 , although their main grievances were economic , they also protested at the changes in the familiar rituals . |
| 9 | Taylor was reported to have protested at the arrival in Monrovia in mid-February of 10 Nigerian air force fighter planes , and to have warned that he would continue to oppose Sawyer 's interim government and the presence of ECOMOG . |
| 10 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Antoine smiled at such madness , winced at the fires in his brain . |
| 13 | Innocent III himself by the bull " Vineam Domini " of April 1213 summoned a great council to meet at the Lateran in Rome on 1 November 1215 to be known as the Fourth Lateran Council . |
| 14 | Keith stands at the bar in Oz East . |
| 15 | I want to say the thing that 's happening at the moment in my difficult life that I 'd hold onto like a drowning man with a log . |
| 16 | He gives a running commentary on what is happening at the moment in the game but also gives a players history where he thinks it will help the reader to understand to a fuller extent what is happening in the play . |
| 17 | And , and I think what is actually happening at the moment in , in the parish is that there is some perception , there is a perception , that something is , that things are changing and that the parish council is of importance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Léonie peered at the pockmarks in the red surface . |
| 20 | Isabel raised her left hand and peered at the ring in the dim light cast by the clock-candle burning near the bed . |
| 21 | Jaq peered at the face in the screen — especially at the eyes — for signs of a daemon rooted within the man 's psyche . |
| 22 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 23 | Meredith trembled at the tenderness in his tone . |
| 24 | She trembled at the passion in his voice , her whole being coming alive just for him . |
| 25 | The snake 's skin trembled at the movement in the air . |
| 26 | The race starts at the Royal Oak , Owl Lane , and finishes at the maypole in the high street . |
| 27 | But after a minute he let his hands drop and picked at the rubbish in the bin . |
| 28 | The next chapter looks at the way in which the working class has been involved in class alliances in order to capture the state and exert influence that way . |
| 29 | Genevieve Lloyd , in The Man of Reason : ‘ Male ’ and ‘ Female ’ in Western Philosophy ( 1984 ) , looks at the way in which Western philosophy has conceptualised reason , and shows that throughout its history ideals of reason have incorporated an exclusion of the feminine , which creates both practical and conceptual problems for women who may experience conflicts between reason and femininity . |
| 30 | As part of the investigation into attitudes to mass electricity , the project explores the reception by the public of plans for a National Grid and looks at the way in which this programme was presented to those most likely to be environmentally and economically affected by its construction . |