Example sentences of "who [verb] at [pos pn] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 2 | May have been , well have been many people who suffered at his hands . |
| 3 | We slid down a steep path past a lonely long-eared donkey who snuffled at our backs . |
| 4 | He accepted that the Colonel 's look of complacent ownership had prompted Mariana 's question , and that his mother , her face unseen by her escort , who lounged at her feet on the grass , projected a sense of distance and of slight embarrassment at the relationship implied by the taking of the picture . |
| 5 | " In that case I 'll accompany you , " he said abruptly , and offered her his arm like the gentleman he wanted to be , so that the women and old men who sat at their doorways in West Street stared in amazement at the unprecedented sight of Harry Pascoe on an errand of mercy with his wife . |