Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Antoine smiled at such madness , winced at the fires in his brain . |
| 4 | And it was the end of the road for former council chairman Archie McAuley , who crashed at the polls after 32 years on the council . |
| 5 | Léonie peered at the pockmarks in the red surface . |
| 6 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 7 | I peered at the photographs on the dressing table . |
| 8 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 9 | She snatched at the strings of her apron , fingers fretting at the lumpy knot in the small of her back . |
| 10 | This system was devised not just with political but with military arrangements in view , and this is another way in which city and countryside were brought together : the demes and trittyes were often arranged along , and clustered at the ends of , the strategic highways of Attica , thereby making for easy mobilization , with the agora of Athens as the place of muster . |
| 11 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 12 | At least 2,000 died in Badajoz alone , most of them machine-gunned in the bullring ; thousands more perished at the hands of the Legionaries , the Moors or the right-wing militias in other towns and villages of Andalusia and Extremadura . |
| 13 | Western scholars may never discover how many Soviet citizens perished at the hands of Beria 's NKVD troops ( or Abakhumov 's SMERSH , operating in the enemy rear ) , but the scale and significance of their operations is well understood by those who command today 's KGB Border Guards and MVD Internal Troops , along with the ‘ special detachments ’ of the KGB and Armed Forces . |
| 14 | Late one night , he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter . |
| 15 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 16 | Nathan gave a brief shrug , and a wry , self-mocking smile flickered at the corners of his mouth . |
| 17 | He presided at the councils of Piacenza and Clermont ( 1095 ) , and preached with fervour war against the infidel , for the defence of Christendom and the recovery of the holy places . |
| 18 | The French monarchy reciprocated at the deaths of their Plantagenet kinsmen and women . |
| 19 | He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck . |
| 20 | At last , Dulé rose , and forced his dragging limbs to take steps ; he shouted at the fighters with him , and roused them to stand by his side . |
| 21 | Carefully , Mrs Browning dabbed at the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief . |
| 22 | She screwed the cap back on her lipstick case , rolled her lips together , dabbed at the corners with a violet tissue , then snapped shut the mirror-case and zipped up all the contents of her cosmetic-bag . |
| 23 | Sybil picked up the telephone and dabbed at the buttons with a well-scrubbed finger . |
| 24 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 25 | Félicité et Perpétue crept up the mellow brickwork , and Gloire de Dijon climbed higher , and there were heavy dark crimson Bourdons and Portland roses in the borders and pink Ce/1leste clumped at the corners with its paler leaves . |
| 26 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 27 | Of the 120,000 people who attended the three day meeting last year , 33 suffered at the hands of pickpockets despite a huge police crime prevention campaign . |
| 28 | As you know , we too suffered at the hands of the law on the freedom of speech issue with NWA . |
| 29 | In 1898 Spain suffered at the hands of the upstart United States a humiliating military and naval defeat in the Caribbean and Pacific . |
| 30 | There are many cases recorded in which Christian subjects petitioned the sultan to redress grievances which they suffered at the hands of overbearing church leaders , and where the sultan acted in the interests of the petitioners . |