Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 2 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 3 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 4 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 5 | In drawing up its outline plan , the WJEC was not content solely with commenting separately on the proposals made by its constituent local authorities but attempted to look at the needs of Wales as a whole , a procedure that was not always followed by the English RACs in respect of their regions . |
| 6 | Craxi vehemently denied the allegations and refused to resign at a closed meeting of the party executive on Dec. 17 . |
| 7 | Eleanor lowered her hands and turned to stare at Melissa , an expression of bewilderment on her blotched and swollen face . |
| 8 | The front of her hair was flattened by a battery of pearl clips and left to rise at the back in styrofoam peaks . |
| 9 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 10 | Nicholson stopped his slow strides and turned to look at her . |
| 11 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |
| 12 | He lifted the oars and began to pull at them again , digging heavily into the water to his right , bringing the boat back onto a straight course . |
| 13 | He lost by 2,412 votes but returned to win at the General Election three months later with a majority of over 3,000 . |