Example sentences of "and [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had almost resolved to make his escape — it would not be noticed — when a young woman with dark hair and a plain , wise face came up to him , followed by the bewhiskered precentor he had seen and heard at Savill 's . |
| 2 | Spiked cages surround baroque colonial villas ; apartment doors are reinforced and guarded at gunpoint . |
| 3 | They elbowed and fought and gave each other tongue-sandwiches , and spat at passers-by and in each other 's faces , there in the cold and rain of decaying London , with the indifferent police looking on . |
| 4 | And all because of … ’ he half-turned and spat at Luke , ‘ that fuckin' informer there ! ’ |
| 5 | Upon closure of Woodhead , the class 76's were simply shut down one by one and congregated at Guide Bridge for many months afterwards , eventually departing for scrapyards in Sheffield or Leicester . |
| 6 | Immediately before , and at appropriate intervals after the addition of ATP , 5ml aliquots were mixed with 1.5ml of stop solution ( 0.1M EDTA , 5% SDS ) and placed at 65°C for 5 min . |
| 7 | Briefly , 1 ml of 50–100 fold diluted bile was added to 1ml of trichloroacetic acid solution ( final concentration 10% ) and placed at 4°C for 30 minutes . |
| 8 | She had always regarded her purely as a teacher , a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again . |
| 9 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 10 | Sir Bryan 's eye did a lap of the table and stopped at Lord Monkton . |
| 11 | Parents may be able to express their concern in the clinic while they just get angry and irritated at home . |
| 12 | The arrival of my first child , a daughter in 1989 , left me stunned and fascinated at society 's attitude towards birth . |
| 13 | The man , who has not been named , was slightly injured and treated at Darlington Memorial Hospital before being discharged last night . |
| 14 | Virtually all the largest American corporations broke the law in one way or another ; laws controlling pollution , the adulteration of products , the regulating of prices and so on were ignored and broken at will . |
| 15 | David , feeling that he was learning nothing at Newtown Comprehensive and that his parents ' lives were increasingly centred on London , took a unilateral decision ; he left Clogau , moved into the family flat in Chelsea and enrolled at Holland Park Comprehensive , the most renowned , free-thinking state school of the day . |
| 16 | The scraps of handwritten messages from survivors huddled in the Carpathia ( Lot 9 at Christie 's , £6,000/8,000 ) ; a letter written in the Titanic and posted at Queenstown ( Onslow 's , £1,500/2,000 ) are witness to the greatest maritime disaster of modern times . |
| 17 | For already domestic class forces were being invented and manipulated at will to validate policy decisions . |
| 18 | One mililitre of native or model bile samples were added to the dried lecithin and shaken at 37°C for one hour . |
| 19 | The steady rise in quality of the materials produced and developed at Dudley Teachers ' Centre , for instance , is an excellent example ; the centre has an enthusiastic warden and much of the work has developed under the stimulus of an outstanding educational adviser , but the content of the materials has been developed by local teachers with admirable results ( mostly limited at present to print-form ) . |
| 20 | The igfet SC implementation constructed at King 's uses a chip designed at University College , and fabricated at Plessey III/V for the operational amplifier and capacitor parts of the circuit . |
| 21 | ‘ All the transactions of goods loaded and off-loaded at Strasbourg in the last ten days . ’ |
| 22 | He leapt forward and slashed at Yuan 's neck , a circular cut which would have beheaded the Manchu if it had connected . |
| 23 | As he rose he somersaulted , circled his sword down , and slashed at Mubarak 's neck . |
| 24 | In his official capacity , Bishop Daly has attended a number of recent public functions and officiated at funerals for two priests . |
| 25 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |
| 26 | One solution adopted by Iran appears to have been to send crude off to Aden or other refining centres abroad like Singapore and Italy for processing into products to be sent back to Iran and discharged at storage facilities available at terminals on Gulf islands like Lavan . |
| 27 | Showing no ill-effects from the ‘ chucking ’ accusation he had faced earlier in the tour , the Middlesex man soon removed Wright , driving out of the rough and caught at slip ; ended Hartland 's defiant debut at silly point ; had Greatbatch snapped up at short leg after a couple of desperate drives ; and broke through Thomson 's forcing shot via an arm ball . |
| 28 | A biting November wind whipped through the canyon of the street and caught at Katherine 's coat , depositing an array of candy wrappers and subway tickets at her feet . |
| 29 | He was born at Godstone in Surrey and educated at Kingston Grammar School and King 's College London . |
| 30 | Peter Telford Hayman was born on June 14 1914 and educated at Stowe and Worcester College , Oxford , before joining the Home Civil Service in 1937 . |