Example sentences of "[vb past] at the [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She snatched at the strings of her apron , fingers fretting at the lumpy knot in the small of her back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Late one night , he stopped at the gates of a Franciscan monastery to seek shelter . |
| 8 | While they were eating , a woman who had a bad name crept into the room and knelt at the feet of Jesus . |
| 9 | Nathan gave a brief shrug , and a wry , self-mocking smile flickered at the corners of his mouth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The French monarchy reciprocated at the deaths of their Plantagenet kinsmen and women . |
| 12 | Carefully , Mrs Browning dabbed at the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As you know , we too suffered at the hands of the law on the freedom of speech issue with NWA . |
| 17 | In 1898 Spain suffered at the hands of the upstart United States a humiliating military and naval defeat in the Caribbean and Pacific . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead . |
| 20 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 21 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 22 | The Rev. John Kingdon , the Baptist minister , had two other ceremonies to perform that day , as he also officiated at the burials of Mary Whiting , aged 77 , and a deaf and dumb girl of 45 years , Christiana Yerbury . |
| 23 | The fingers clenched jerkily as the arms flailed at the sides of the grave , tossing dirt aside in an attempt to gain a purchase on the soft earth . |
| 24 | He gestured at the bodies of Rodomonte and Molassi . |
| 25 | At the basis of his outrageous talent and inevitably the root of his temperamental insecurities , was his diminutive height and the almost vindictive treatment he received at the feet of much bigger and stronger opponents . |
| 26 | He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration . |
| 27 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 28 | Believe it or not Numerate arrived at the stables of Tania 's father , Peter , yesterday . |
| 29 | Then , in the winter of 1085 , Alfonso arrived at the gates of Saragossa and laid siege to the city . |
| 30 | He usually guessed at the contents of letters , and stood around waiting for his guesses to be confirmed . |