Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | UCG rallied at the beginning of the second half , Lorcan Dowd scoring a great goal , and Tony Maher then cutting the deficit to two points . |
| 3 | Dick Turpin is claimed to have stopped here and according to Nevinson , Queen Elizabeth dined at the Whitefriars in 1565 , after which it fell to the ground . |
| 4 | He remembered the ancient and persistent belief that once any living creature has walked in the Black Fields of Sorcery and dined at the tables of the Lords of the Dark Ireland , he is for ever lost to the true Ireland . |
| 5 | It surfaced at the start of the eighteenth century in Paty 's Case ( 1704 ) 2 Ld Raym 1105 , where the fact that the officers of the House failed to make a sufficient particular return to the writ of Habeas Corpus was taken by Holt CJ ( dissenting , but prestigious ) to justify intervention by the courts . |
| 6 | Exactly one year after he announced the unbanning of black opposition groups , President F. W. de Klerk promised at the opening of Parliament on Feb. 1 to scrap all remaining apartheid legislation . |
| 7 | She pouted at the shake of his fur hat . |
| 8 | Some 400 members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) yesterday demonstrated at the scene of Friday 's killings . |
| 9 | Quite simply , not only do we and they not share common objectives , but we do not even make similar appraisals of world events , as the President of France demonstrated at the time of the coup in Moscow , when he seemed willing to negotiate with the coup 's leaders . |
| 10 | The man and I prodded at the pile of crap on the table . |
| 11 | This was Maclean of Duart , Chief of Clan Gillian , unchallenged lord of life and death ; her life and death ; and her scalp rose at the dread of him . |
| 12 | A tiny , half-formed thought rose at the back of Marion 's mind . |
| 13 | The city rose at the edge of a green plain , nestling in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada , and as Mitch gasped Ana realised they had arrived . |
| 14 | Prices of electricity and gas rose at the beginning of 1991 , increasing retail prices by 12.7 per cent overall . |
| 15 | They bristled at the sight of the Doctor . |
| 16 | Returning to the questions we posed at the outset of this enquiry , we would , therefore , have to conclude that anti-Semitism , despite its pivotal place in Hitler 's ‘ world view ’ , was of only secondary importance in cementing the bonds between Führer and people which provided the Third Reich with its popular legitimation and base of plebiscitary acclamation . |
| 17 | Alan Duffy had overheard Mr Simmons and Miss Craven talking about Frankie 's father , who was a real-life American who had been in the Army and the merchant navy and was now a farmer who posed at the School of Art and played guitar in a popular local dance-band . |
| 18 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 19 | A test paper which she should have found easy was turned in uncompleted , with ‘ I ca n't do this , sorry , ’ scrawled at the foot of the page . |
| 20 | As she watched , holding her breath , it reared up , threshed at the air with its forelegs , and then leapt away and was lost to her sight beyond a rise . |
| 21 | ‘ He kissed me and tried to stuff his hand down my front — ’ her face winced at the memory of the way his hands and mouth had felt and she saw Luke 's jaw tighten in response , his eyes harden to pure ice ‘ — but nothing more . ’ |
| 22 | Charles winced at the thought of what he was doing . |
| 23 | Joe winced at the look of it . |
| 24 | She winced at the size of his tailor 's bill and questioned him going to Harley Street to replace two teeth knocked out in the Gold Cup when there was a perfectly good National Health dentist down the road . |
| 25 | The Doctor winced at the sound of the creature 's voice . |
| 26 | Nassim winced at the sound of breaking glass from the bathroom , but it was only the remaining splinters of the old stuff coming down . |
| 27 | A sense of alarm prompted her to knock again , more loudly , and this time the door was thrust open by an elegant though plainly dressed young woman who winced at the sound of breaking glass , coming from somewhere behind her . |
| 28 | Robyn winced at the mention of food and swallowed gingerly . |
| 29 | Rachel winced at the slam of his door . |
| 30 | Antoine smiled at such madness , winced at the fires in his brain . |