Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it would be a release to suffer extinction at the teeth of this woman . |
| 2 | Heart pounding with excitement , he barged through the door and into the dock , where Germans both on the dockside and aboard the ships ran for cover , beginning to open fire at the intruders . |
| 3 | Raymond was witty and unusual and from time to time he was invited to drink coffee at the artists ' cafés . |
| 4 | He also tried his hand as a film director , though less successfully , and wrote a play about a German who sought to take out a patent for gas ovens , which was staged to scant acclaim at the Arts Theatre in 1965 . |
| 5 | In the heady days immediately following the Keynesian revolution , many of Keynes 's followers began to express concern at the consequences which might flow from a commitment to full employment . |
| 6 | To complete the process , Body Building Scalp Finish adds ‘ lift ’ to limp hair at the roots , tones the scalp and controls oil secretion . |
| 7 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 8 | Mr Wright was one of the first to give evidence at the inquests into the deaths of three students : Mayuree Taraket ; Ketkanok Chuenjai , and Malee Jenajaroen , all from Thailand . |
| 9 | Her legs were threatening to give way at the knees . |
| 10 | As the winner of both his races this season , Cruising Altitude was fully entitled to start favourite at the weights and he set a course record beating the time of Run For Free in the opener who had himself just broken the previous record . |
| 11 | When the German officer began to shout abuse at the Poles , this goat leant out of his window and shouted abuse at the German officer . |
| 12 | The fact that there is no sound track makes it possible to practise language at the students ' level ( Finocchiaro 1968 ) . |
| 13 | In 1972 Rata Quick formed an ‘ Elite Team ’ of 12 performers to represent Medau at the Women 's League of Health and Beauty Anniversary Festival at the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 14 | 3.5 With effect from carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 and thereafter to commence business at the Premises for the purpose permitted by the Lease |
| 15 | His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips . |
| 16 | A " works contractor " , on the other hand , is an organisation which supplies its own employees to undertake work at the premises of a client and which retains control over them whilst they are working there . |
| 17 | Buoyed up by a wave of patriotic outrage rooted in the well-established propensity of liberal England to display shame at the actions of its Governments , the left was quick to seize the opportunities presented by Munich . |
| 18 | In both of these roles he is himself exposed to close scrutiny at the hands of other politicians and the media . |
| 19 | Other UN agencies started to throw money at the problems of the territories , for example both Unicef and UNDP provided money for activities selected and overseen by the Israeli authorities , thus — however innocent the intention — allowing aid to become an instrument of control rather than support for independent development . |