Example sentences of "and [vb base] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 2 | It 's better to walk b back , and look at them for a d you know , from afar , than |
| 3 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 4 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 5 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 6 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 7 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 8 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 9 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 10 | And some , as it meant , if that , if they had done that you actually have to put your foot in their sto , chest , or their stomach and push them away from you , and swim around and come at them from the back . |