Example sentences of "and [vb pp] at the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Gabriel , both excited and frightened at the prospect . |
| 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 | An arm was slipped under her shoulders , lifting her ; then something was wrapped round her and fastened at the throat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jitters leaned close and spat at the cowboy . |
| 8 | Lexandro coughed and spat at the partly crippled Titan on his target-screen . |
| 9 | Status of all rooms , including those ready for use , can be displayed and adjusted at the Hotel Manager workstation . |
| 10 | She was admitted , now , to the feasting-hall of the King , and placed at the long women 's table presided over by Marietta of Patras , the King 's serene and excellent mother . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The -300 Sal 5'ESV and -300 Sal 3'ESV constructs contain a 220bp NcoI-PvuII fragment from the SV40 enhancer which was modified by addition of linkers to either a BamHI fragment or a SalI fragment and placed at the 5' and 3' end of the -300 Sal construct , respectively . |
| 13 | He 'd worked and taught at the Magic Theater in San Francisco ; had therapy at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur with Fritz Perls ; worked in New York with Chaikin and La Mama . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In 1978 he left and briefly practised at the Bar and taught at the City of London Polytechnic and the University of East Anglia . |
| 16 | Finally a single Land-Rover ground over the ridge and stopped at the barricade . |
| 17 | Nathan passed through the curtain and stopped at the top of the steps . |
| 18 | Bigwig went a little way down the run and stopped at the entrance to a large burrow . |
| 19 | Christina followed and stopped at the front door . |
| 20 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 21 | His thick , almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears . |
| 22 | He drove off slowly and stopped at the lights . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was really a very likeable lad , though a bit mysterious and withdrawn at the deepest level . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | He bent forward and plucked at the coat . |
| 29 | We are both exalted and fallen at the same time : sinful and yet given unique status in the universe of things . |
| 30 | These writings appealed essentially to a generation of students bored with academic life and attracted by the street credibility of the Situationists , and often provided students with the dubious pleasure of being flattered and insulted at the same time . |