Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secondary plate , enabling the creatures to chew and breathe at the same time , is also a mammalian characteristic . |
| 2 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
| 3 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 4 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 5 | With the opening of the Great Hall on 15th April 1992 , you and your family will find there is so much more to see and discover at the National Railway Museum . |
| 6 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 7 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 8 | Soon all those who dare to smile or weep at the wrong moment will be sent to the poles … a cruel ruler will seize power , everyone who does not learn to keep silent will be put in prison and the extermination of mankind will begin . ’ |
| 9 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 10 | Those who persisted discovered the drives ' disconcerting tendency to implode or deliquesce at the merest touch of a screwdriver . |
| 11 | Marcellus ' defence was that he had taught the ignorant to respect and wonder at the beautiful and marvellous works of Greece ( Marc . 21 ) . |
| 12 | And that 's telling 'em — Jess thought , wanting to cheer and boo at the same time . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 14 | The recent blurring of distinctions between gay and straight clubs is a welcome development : ‘ I 'd really like to educate and entertain at the same time . |
| 15 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 16 | We have a mission to widen access to higher education and to teach and research at the highest possible level . |
| 17 | Oh dear God , why did she want to laugh and cry at the same time ? |
| 18 | What a heavenly dilemma : I wanted to stay and go at the same time . |
| 19 | I am not able to eat and talk at the same time , so I apologized to my neighbours for this . |
| 20 | Then , very important for people like me , we developed a secondary palette , who 's function is to allow you to eat and talk at the same time |
| 21 | but it also enables to you to eat and breathe at the same time . |
| 22 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
| 23 | Try to push and lift at the same time — go on , try to get the back wheels off the ground as you go along ! |
| 24 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 25 | The eyes that were violet like his mother 's were strangely secretive , seeming to frown and smile at the same time . |