Example sentences of "it [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nicholas Luard and the other members of the group were particularly concerned about the planting of conifers at Bara Ceirch farm as it stands at the headwaters of the Rivers Cothi and Towy , two of the finest salmon rivers in Wales . |
| 3 | It looks at the reasons for dissatisfaction at the ways in which complaints are handled , highlighting an example of an elderly couple who had waited two years for someone to come round with a colour chart , prior to decorating the outside of their house . |
| 4 | In particular , it looks at the levels at which key industrial relations decisions and collective agreement are made , the links between managerial strategy and union organisation and industrial conflict , and the changes taking place in strategies and structures employed by managers for industrial relations since 1980 . |
| 5 | I am used to the wind 's deep-throated shouts as it tears at the corners of our cottage in Cornwall , as it cracks branches and sweeps up leaves . |
| 6 | Finding nothing , it lashed at the walls and screamed in fury . |
| 7 | But the saying of it cuts at the chains . |
| 8 | He turned his head and saw Hrun crouched by the pit , his sword a blur as it hacked at the tentacles racing out towards him . |
| 9 | What on earth is it doing at the cleaners … |
| 10 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |
| 11 | It looked at the problems of the validation machinery itself , for example in conditions of the expansion of teacher education and the array of complex diversified courses which raised logistical and other problems for the CNAA . |
| 12 | But when it looked at the boys , Edwardian England was invariably moved . |
| 13 | HP figures Sun tried its damnedest to come up with a full-featured workstation under $5,000 but when it looked at the margins , dumbed down the box to create the Classic . |
| 14 | Was it directed at the restaurants of Chichester or Glyndebourne ? — calling for two 16-oz. cans of spaghetti in tomato sauce , 9 oz. of plain flour and 6 oz. of shredded suet ( put about by the Atora Suet Bureau ) are also uncommon . |
| 15 | An upper garment is drawn diagonally across the breasts , revealing their broad forms and falling loose below them over the tight belt which it conceals at the sides , and it hangs in a shallow curve on the left hip , a long trail on the right . |
| 16 | we will do all we can for , well especially at the centre and while , whilst acknowledging the need for it to resource at the schools at this conference the voluntary agencies , parents and even teachers admitted the greater need for specialists at the centre , that is we want more education psychologists , advisors of all sorts and er , therefore supporting options er at ten , one C , small roman one , and small roman three on the agenda , but er that is reluctantly not er not small roman two . |