Example sentences of "and [vb pp] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , both excited and frightened at the prospect . |
| 3 | She was staring wide-eyed and frightened at the supper room 's open doorway which , like a proscenium arch , framed the Highland dancers and , quite suddenly , now also framed her lover . |
| 4 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 5 | Another design that was to remain a firm favourite was the waterproof snow boot — fur-lined , with suede on the outside and fastened at the front or side with a zip . |
| 6 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
| 7 | Jitters leaned close and spat at the cowboy . |
| 8 | Status of all rooms , including those ready for use , can be displayed and adjusted at the Hotel Manager workstation . |
| 9 | For his pains , he was treated disrespectfully by guest players and placed at the centre of the most distasteful charade ever seen on an English first-class cricket field . |
| 10 | Although Aldo Ciccolini is Neapolitan by birth , he has lived in France since 1949 and taught at the Paris Conservatoire , and has made fine recordings of French piano music including works by Saint-Saëns and Satie . |
| 11 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 12 | He drove off slowly and stopped at the lights . |
| 13 | Nathan passed through the curtain and stopped at the top of the steps . |
| 14 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 15 | Finally a single Land-Rover ground over the ridge and stopped at the barricade . |
| 16 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 17 | Bigwig went a little way down the run and stopped at the entrance to a large burrow . |
| 18 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 19 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 20 | ‘ And a gardener-handyman , ’ said Charlotte , her eyes following the vigorous heave and surge of the mole-brown water as it tore down past them and ripped at the curve of the bank , lipping half across the trodden right of way . |
| 21 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 22 | He bent forward and plucked at the coat . |
| 23 | Within the Russian republic the Communists for Democracy movement , led by Rutskoi and formed at the March-April 1991 Russian Congress of People 's Deputies [ for which see pp. 38130-31 ] , announced on July 10 that it was to form a political party . |
| 24 | Her remains were stolen and hidden at the foot of an oak tree in this valley , to be eventually found , in the familiar manner of such discoveries , by an inquisitively rooting ox , whose horns at once lit indicatively up . |
| 25 | Here n i is the number of times the ith symmetry species appears in Γ y , h is the order of the point group ( equal to the total number of symmetry operations , and given at the head of the character table ) , g r is the number of equivalent symmetry operations of type R , and Xi ( R ) is the character listed for operation R for this symmetry species in the character table . |
| 26 | Any anxiety state and/or depression suffered by the insured and diagnosed at the time of purchasing this insurance . |
| 27 | It was an inglorious episode in English history , little remembered since , and regarded at the time less as a disgrace than as a deliverance . |
| 28 | The shallow oval profile is flattened and squared at the heel to match its recessed location in the body . |
| 29 | Repayments are in ten instalments beginning six years after the date of borrowing and completed at the end of the tenth year after borrowing . |
| 30 | The package , called Hippix and developed at the university 's Center for Software Science , includes Unix commands and libraries that Hippo maintains will let Unix users cost-effectively integrate PCs into their Unix networks by giving them identical tools for both platforms . |