Example sentences of "[verb] and [verb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | So I think to some extent what one needs to do is to try and get at the governments , rather that at individual timber producers . |
| 2 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 3 | But what struck like an ice-cold knife into Owen 's heart was the group of six or seven men standing in the middle of the road , between him and the fire , laughing and jeering at the villagers ' puny efforts to save their homes . |
| 4 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 5 | Size will evaporate in the course of the years , and new writing will blur and spread at the edges . |
| 6 | So , as part of the briefing process , Orpington employees and their families were taken on day trip coach tours to Stevenage so that they could visit the site where the new offices were being built and look at the types of houses and facilities available in the area . |
| 7 | A crowd gathered and shouted at the police , provoking another baton charge which forced them down towards Butcher Gate and the Bogside . |
| 8 | On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara . |
| 9 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 10 | A quick end , rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall . |
| 11 | Rincewind turned and stared at the flames racing towards them , and wondered how much of Ankh-Morpork could be bought for two hundred rhinu . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , we landed at Newcastle airport ’ — Charlie turned and looked at the men — ‘ at three o'clock ? ’ |
| 13 | As a few of us stand and look at the Germans , Mills Roberts appears with a few of his Officers . |
| 14 | He could imagine her posed , mouth moistly open , hips jutting and staring at the cameras with that apparently obligatory look of arrogant resentment . |
| 15 | As a result of their ascetic lifestyle and their verbal assaults on their less godly neighbours , they were frequently subjected to ridicule and abuse at the hands of their contemporaries . |
| 16 | The scullions sweated and ducked at the spits and bake-ovens built around the exercise ground for the clan to feast . |
| 17 | A factor for some of us in so doing was the fact that we have been saddened and sickened at the supermarkets ' attitudes in exploiting the European difficulty . |
| 18 | But erm the idea is have this up and running and look at the problems . |
| 19 | Her daughters were also charming with their big dark eyes and exuberantly glossy hair and breasts rising like pomegranates , and they giggled in amazed delight when Perdita swore and yelled at the grooms and even screamed at their father . |
| 20 | We 've brought forward the Readers Poll slightly this year so that we can swoon and rail and curse at the results as part of our New Year offensive . |
| 21 | Could I take er , a minute and , and just try and look at the steps that you 've gone through and I , I tried to write down as you were doing it , giving your presentation , the steps which I think everybody eventually went through either formally or informally and I think if we look at these steps you 'll agree yes , I needed that and I did that or , we did n't do it formally . |
| 22 | I know , Thérèse shouted : let's go and look at the kittens . |
| 23 | Feeling the whole blueness shutting in on her , walls running with cyan drops whose stench was acrid and bile , she wrenched and wrenched at the straps and at last the curving bottle came free . |
| 24 | She blinked and nodded at the hospitallers . |
| 25 | Go and look at the stones . |
| 26 | The ion trajectories are deflected and focused at the edges of the shadow cone much like rain falls off an umbrella , as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 27 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 28 | The two boats rubbed and banged at the gunwales , and when Pascoe — a Cornish giant if ever there was one — jumped from one to the other , both craft rocked violently . |
| 29 | ‘ Will it be all right , ’ she ventured to say , ‘ if I come and look at the orchids tomorrow ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Come and look at the fireplaces , ’ said William , and they filed dutifully into the room Tess had just come out of . |