Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An infant uses the mouth as the first organ from which pleasure can be derived , through sucking at the breast and imbibing the warm milk . |
| 2 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 3 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 4 | We all fell about laughing at the idea of a man with virtually no English suddenly coming out with such a word . |
| 5 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other wacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 6 | We fell about laughing at the jogging carrots , head butting parsnips and other whacky characters as we jumped , climbed and ran about the many levels . |
| 7 | At British general elections , vote counts are reported at constituency level only , so that where a party gets its votes is largely unknown ( though party workers have efficient ways of estimating the geography of their support when acting as scrutineers at the count ) . |
| 8 | Shortly after landing at the site , McGuinness met W/C Parsons , Embarkation Officer at Glasgow ; S/L Orr , Maintenance Command ; F/L Morgan , 50 Squadron , S/L Wall from the Air Ministry and S/L Hughes who was in charge of the RAF ground crews tasked with maintaining the Spitfires during their transfer . |
| 9 | After laughing at the idea of launching Forest Hills in Liverpool , Adidas let him have 500 pairs . |
| 10 | After training at the School of Military Engineering , Chatham , he served in the Boer war ( 1901–2 ) and then in Chatham ( 1904 ) , Bermuda ( 1904–7 ) , Harwich ( 1907–9 ) , and Ireland ( 1909–12 ) , before passing top into the Staff College at Camberley in 1912 . |
| 11 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 12 | In Russia Catherine II , after conniving at the overthrow and murder of her husband in 1762 , was on continuously bad terms with her son and heir , Paul , who feared and hated her and whom in the last two decades of her reign she scarcely ever saw . |
| 13 | In most situations , therefore , it is sufficient to disinfect after cleaning at the end of each work cycle . |
| 14 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 15 | The original plan did not envisage a commercial use , he told Reuter after speaking at the conference . |
| 16 | You may make a switch of this kind after starting at the Bar . |
| 17 | Jacopo Bassano ‘ The miraculous draught of fishes ’ , to be shown at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth , Texas , from 23 January to 24 April , when the major Jacopo Bassano exhibition transfers to the States after closing at the Museo Civico of Bassano del Grappa on 6 December . |
| 18 | After closing at the Hammer on 12 April , ‘ Catherine ’ will go to the Dallas Historical Society , and to one other venue , yet to be determined . |
| 19 | After arriving at the quantity of paper needed ( allowing for wastage ) I would descend to the cellar , bring up the paper , and cut it to size on our huge hand-powered guillotine whilst the two others would be hand-setting the copy handed them by me on a clip , for their guidance . |
| 20 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 21 | Stewart Raynsford and Peter Kemp were found slumped in their unlocked cell just hours after arriving at the jail and it was assumed they had been attacked by fellow inmates . |
| 22 | After studying at the University of St Andrews , he went to Christ 's College , Cambridge , in 1867 , transferring to St Catharine 's in 1870 , and received a BA in 1871 . |
| 23 | After showing at the Accademia in London until 7 February the exhibition travels to the Ruskin Gallery , Sheffield ( 20 February–10 April ) and the Fondazione Ragghianti , Lucca ( 1 May-12 June ) . |
| 24 | Melanie Henwood joined the King 's Fund Institute as a Fellow in Health Policy Analysis in July 1989 after working at the Family Policy Studies Centre since 1983 . |
| 25 | Next time a stranger tries to stop you in the street , perhaps you should think twice about looking at the pavement and brushing past . |
| 26 | The long-lived alien 's point of view is the right one for looking at the plausibility of a theory like Cairns-Smith 's or the primeval-soup theory . |
| 27 | This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it . |
| 28 | Instead , Robson settles for looking at the League table . |
| 29 | We may not all want to be ‘ artists ’ , producing and performing work , but arts events can provide another accessible route for looking at the world in relation to disabled people . |
| 30 | Now , looking back with the wisdom of adulthood , she could appreciate what she had taken for granted at the time . |