Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour fingers jabbed at the Liberal Democrats , while Tory order papers were waved in the air . |
| 2 | Mandeville sneered as his strong teeth tore at the coarse rye bread . |
| 3 | Some of the rallies were violent , if only because of the resentment which Labour supporters felt at the splitting of the anti-Conservative vote . |
| 4 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 5 | Militant feminists pointed out that sexual antagonism lay at the heart of the suffrage struggle and could never be resolved within the discourse of political liberalism . |
| 6 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 7 | The old fear lurked at the back of his mind : suppose Lorton had set him up for Newley 's murder ? |
| 8 | A ghostly figure hovered at the end of the tunnel . |
| 9 | But The Waterline 's absorbing issue , forgiveness of oneself and others , disappears in the three narratives overcrowded with portent and incident , as if clear thinking quailed at the messiness of the world . |
| 10 | ASENIOR police officer and his wife and two children escaped injury yesterday after a bomb containing up to 10lb of high explosive exploded at the back of their bungalow in Drumbo , south of Belfast . |
| 11 | Old Den stood at the opposite side of the grave with Tommy Drennan , each with a cord ready to help lay Celia and Dermot Murphy to rest . |
| 12 | We must hope it was a harbinger that the one riotously funny scene occurred at the end of the first episode , with Europe through . |
| 13 | SCOTTISH fencers excelled at the British Age Group Championships , Croydon . |
| 14 | The French boy glanced at the man for a moment , then shrugged . |
| 15 | Lina , her mother Dolores , and old Abuelo stood at the door as the congregation filed in , gossiping and excited , as the band played and the organist competed with it . |
| 16 | Forster 's grotesque rubber mask nodded at the inferno . |
| 17 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 18 | A major exhibition of Tibetan art opened at the Royal Academy on 18 September as reports are coming out of Tibet that the Chinese have recently completed the ‘ restoration ’ of the Dalai Lama 's Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa . |
| 19 | Old Red frowned at the floor . |
| 20 | What the hon. Gentleman said at the beginning of his question was entirely wrong . |
| 21 | The Labour Government neglected and cut resources for law and order , and the right hon. Gentleman sat at the table agreeing to those cuts . |
| 22 | A blackshawled French woman appeared at the window and rapped on it . |
| 23 | Its designated area lay at the heart of one of the most economically depressed cities in Western Europe which had suffered a massive withdrawal of private capital during the previous three decades and endured a series of political traumas in the process ( Parkinson , 1985 , Figure 3.1 ) . |
| 24 | Social relations lay at the heart of lived experience . |
| 25 | When the Free Presbyterians arrived at the Assembly Hall in Fisherwick Place , the police threw a rope across the road and stopped the march . |
| 26 | 4 I had a terrible dream — I was being chased round the Tower of London by a gyre frabjous. 5 Seventeen whiffling Jabberwocks burbled at the vorpal dagger brandished under the Tumtum tree by our brave hero . |
| 27 | The old Han squatted at the entrance to the corridor , waiting there patiently , knowing the dream had been a true dream ; one of those he could not afford to ignore . |
| 28 | Lucy 's self-contained sophistication sipped at the ultimately silly drink . |
| 29 | A faint smile grew across her face an while the old man sipped at the soup she gradually became the proud owner of a huge , cunning grin . |
| 30 | 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 . |