Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Fat Vince is beer-crate operative and freelance bouncer at the Shakespeare .
2 Mr Bland said last night : ‘ Our scheme is designed to ensure that LWT is in a position to make and broadcast programmes at the weekend from 1993 onwards . ’
3 And somebody knew about that telephone call , and met Kemp at the railway station , doubtless informing the taxi-driver who had been hired that he was no longer required . ’
4 Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors .
5 In contrast penetrative magmatism , whereby hot and partially molten material from the asthenosphere forces its way up towards the surface , is a much more rapid mechanism of heat transfer and is capable of thinning 100 km thick lithosphere and producing uplift at the surface in only about 20 Ma .
6 Children wrestle to free their hands from their parents ; Mummy , please let me go and throw stones at the idiots .
7 Amy had screamed for him to stop and , scooping up the kittens , had thrown back her head and howled obscenities at the cruelty of human beings .
8 It was after nine o'clock , however , by the time he got there , since his route was complicated , and involved calls at the mortuary of the General Hospital , at police headquarters , and a telephone call to the forensic laboratory .
9 ‘ She 's the one who is good at figures and has ability at the barbecue ? ’ she asked pointedly , deciding to get all these aggravating niggles off her chest .
10 That is , the use of the royal prerogative as the legal backing for the management of the public service , the principle that a civil servant is a servant of the Crown and holds office at the pleasure of the Crown is one of the best known principles of constitutional law , hallowed by usage and sanctioned by the courts .
11 Harry Ward , a 27-year-old born-deaf man orally educated at the Llandaff School in Cardiff and possessing excellent lipreading skills , managed to follow his three brothers into the Munster Regiment and undergo training at the Curragh Camp in Ireland .
12 Among its other demands are : i ) that manufacturers should be obliged to take back and recycle products at the end of their useful life ; ii ) that the EC should take steps to set up a comprehensive system of environmental liability ; and iii ) that environmental impact assessments on construction projects and other EC-funded programmes be strictly enforced both within and outside Europe .
13 As a result , Germany is now considering legislation to compel car makers to take back and recycle vehicles at the ends of their lives , and its car makers are busily designing cars that can rapidly be dismantled .
14 During a debate on party organisation , some representatives complained that Conservative Central Office was not providing Tory workers with the necessary back-up to sustain and win support at the grass roots .
15 Collins made the running down the left and found Slater at the back-post .
16 It is a place to be warm , a place to be dry , a place to hang up my jacket and to pull faces at the storm outside .
17 They had waved and shouted greetings at the Oldenburg party , who in turn had waved back .
18 Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ?
19 The clinical approach to family planning in which medical staff advised upon and provided services at the hospital was replaced by an extension approach in which a vast array of extension agents and network of services in the countryside was set up , using many techniques of marketing and advertising adapted to the Indian context .
20 For volume , simply dry your hair upside down and grab handfuls at the roots , scrunching as you dry .
21 Countless reminiscences recall the uniquely stimulating and searching atmosphere at the court of this philosopher-king .
22 Stopping and searching vehicles at the roadside .
23 Incidentally I reserve the right to make sick jokes and hurl abuse at the scum , or any opposition , or even Newsome no matter what .
24 She reflected that if Time had needed to deposit its flotsam on her doorstep , could it not have taken the form of a steady young man who caught the 5.30 train home each evening , and played cricket at the weekends ?
25 The European Parliament on Feb. 14 approved a resolution calling for an end to " the deplorable situation of human rights abuses " in Guatemala and expressing concern at the lack of progress in investigating abuses .
26 It has power to request further information from the parties and to inspect documents at the parties ' premises and failure by the parties to provide the information required or to co-operate in an inspection may cause the four month period to be extended .
27 THE FA have agreed to let managers climb Wembley 's 39 steps and receive momentoes at the end of this season 's FA Cup Final .
28 He stuck his head out of one of the windows of the coach , and roared protests at the policemen who were desperately trying to cope with the traffic confusion .
29 We will also have a sales and ordering stall at the branch Christmas Sale on Nov. 16th. has started her antenatal teacher training and hopes to be ‘ registered ’ by mid-December .
30 He met new-born babies , and said prayers in the rooms of the dying , and consoled families at the cemetery , and struggled to communicate with teenagers who did not know how to read .
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