Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reversing its gains of Thursday , the FT-SE slipped back 28.9 to 2697.5 as profit taking dominated at the end of the account . |
| 2 | Curative , hospital-based medicine dominated at the expense of prevention , health promotion and community services , and high priority was given to the treatment of short-term episodes of acute illness to the detriment of the care and rehabilitation of the chronically ill . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Does Birmingham want a centre where people live and work , or a shopping complex that draws in people who live and sleep at the end of the bus routes ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He scratches at the spots on his arm , pulling soiled nails hard across the red blemishes . |
| 7 | Earlier Kevin McNamara , Labour 's shadow Northern Ireland Secretary , described his own meeting on Ulster policy as ‘ overshadowed by a man coming to gloat at the scene of one the gravest blows to democracy carried out in these islands : the bombing of the Conservative Party conference ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | That is either voltage or ligands , in the cases respectively of voltage activated channels or ligand activated channels , both of those factors will act at the level of gating . |
| 10 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 11 | Suppose that the increase in the money supply is announced in time to be included in that agents fully believe the central bank , and that the central bank behaves in period t in the way that it announced it would behave at the end of t - 1 . |
| 12 | Or there was the horse-racing , cricket or football in the parkland , a visit to the skating-rink , or simply marvelling at the mixture of bravura , vulgarity and confidence with which the Victorians had dropped this gigantic testament to British economic expansion into what were then the sleepy rural outskirts of the fast-expanding city . |
| 13 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 14 | Whilst they fished I explored the shores , haunting the hides , marvelling at the variety of bird , plant and animal life . |
| 15 | John Coffin walked away , marvelling at the strangeness of life which made him now mourn a petty criminal whom he had not liked and whom no one had appeared to love , and who might , just possibly , have also poisoned three people . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sure it is n't as bad as that , ’ said Greg , who was n't who was , in fact , marvelling at the effect of three weeks of Viola , and wondering whether there could n't be more to it than just that . |
| 17 | Visitors marvelling at the perfection of work at the Woodworker Show . |
| 18 | He turned to look at her , marvelling at the perfection of her body and the animal passion he had found in her . |
| 19 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 20 | At the time of writing , it has been disclosed at the trial of the former military junta in Buenos Aires that on 5 January 1982 it ‘ set up a working group to analyse the possibility of taking the islands ’ . |
| 21 | Robert , reserves boss at the Oval for the previous six years , will be a hard act to follow , winning the league four times , including last season . |
| 22 | Her heart went out to Antoinette Gebrec , as yet happily ignorant of the fate of her son , and to Philippe Bonard , whose long-cherished dream had turned to a nightmare , while the man they both loved was lying in a broken , bloody heap at the foot of the cliff . |
| 23 | However , for all the splendours of the Monument Valley scenery and Fonda 's tight-lipped moral integrity , there is a downside to his crusade , which is only won at the cost of the lives of two of his brothers and involves the death of Doc Holliday ( Victor Mature ) , a noble outlaw who gets washed away by bullets and consumption along with the bad elements . |
| 24 | Even his new team-mate , the much-lamented François Cevert , won at the Glen in that car . |
| 25 | He has won the Tories a fourth consecutive term — unprecedented , won at the height of a recession — unprecedented too , and delivered the coup de grace to socialism . |
| 26 | As Doctor Who swung into production , envious eyes in the Children 's Department studied its apparently lavish costume and set provisions , distinctly convinced that the programme was being made with an inflated budget won at the expense of cutbacks in standard children 's output . |
| 27 | Although the JSP increased its representation in the lower chamber by 53 seats and its share of the vote by more than 7 per cent , much of its success was won at the expense of the other opposition parties , all of which suffered a loss of support . |
| 28 | Such arrangements were mutually beneficial , although there was always a tendency for the Communist influence to increase at the expense of other less cohesive groups . |
| 29 | They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers . |
| 30 | 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 . |