Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] at the [noun] " 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 | Green records when he has had a particularly good meal : after eating at the Swan in Grasmere , with Anne , he writes ‘ the dinner good and cheap , all cheerful … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She pounded on the masonry with her fist and then , after tearing at the fastenings round her right foot , with the heel of her boot . |
| 11 | After laughing at the idea of launching Forest Hills in Liverpool , Adidas let him have 500 pairs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A sentry let us in after looking at the Feldwebel s papers with a torch and we walked up a garden path towards a sort of suburban villa . |
| 14 | Later , after looking at the rest of the house , they returned to Edouard 's study on the first floor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In most situations , therefore , it is sufficient to disinfect after cleaning at the end of each work cycle . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister 's dramatic move was virtually a direct order to him to make contact and shortly afterwards it was announced Mr Delors would go to Number 10 at 12.45 pm after speaking at the London School of Economics less than a mile away . |
| 18 | After speaking at the UN General Assembly on June 22 , he met President George Bush in Washington on June 25 . |
| 19 | After speaking at the conference , Mr Parkinson told journalists : ‘ It ( BR privatisation ) has never been at the top of my agenda . |
| 20 | The original plan did not envisage a commercial use , he told Reuter after speaking at the conference . |
| 21 | The American visitor wrote out the cheque after staying at the £16-a-night City of London hostel . |
| 22 | A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . |
| 23 | You may make a switch of this kind after starting at the Bar . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A member of the political bureau of the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) , Mohammed Adabo Kabo , was dismissed on Dec. 23 after protesting at the killings , which had also prompted ( on Dec. 18 ) an expression of " severe condemnation " from the French Foreign Ministry . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |