Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love . |
| 2 | Occasionally a thin savage streak of wiry blue hinted at what the storm could really do if it tried . |
| 3 | As more energy is put into the hammer without a check ( in other words , as the player plays more loudly ) a critical point will be reached at which the hammer retains enough energy after hitting the string to bounce up and hit the string again . |
| 4 | This curious conclusion set at nought the work on distribution done by Brown , Humboldt , Darwin and Wallace , and by the botanists Joseph Hooker of Kew and Asa Gray of Harvard ; they had found all sorts of curious patterns , of which it seemed possible to make sense in terms of migrations , barriers and ice ages . |
| 5 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |