Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb base] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISAAC AND I STAY at the farm for two more days . |
| 2 | And I remember at the time , I was chasing you over a most ridiculous national press story that Emlyn did n't like the idea of you a pop singer appearing in one of his classics . |
| 3 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 4 | I will say that Roy dealt with it , when it happened and I know at the time he , he was very very thorough over it . |
| 5 | And I stare at the handprints on the ceiling . |
| 6 | And I listen at the wall for sounds from Jancey , but it 's as quiet as a pillow , and she 's obviously gone to bed . |
| 7 | Tenpin bowling has cheap membership and I believe at the end of the day , that people want to belong to clubs . |
| 8 | Phil : Well I would say that if I had my life over again I wish and hope that everything happens the same , and I think at the end of the day Becky had been the cream on top of the cake … |
| 9 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 10 | And I recall at the beginning of the war , they got a an almost light-proof black out curtaining , and I can re see it today , The Queen bought some , they were on exhibition . |
| 11 | It 's when you pick up one of the guns , feel the metal , that their potentiality strikes you , and you marvel at the precision and care put into them . |
| 12 | And you go at the speed that it warrants . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're tenacious and you get at the truth . |
| 14 | You go into various parts of the er south west , where their labour control and you look at the state of their buildings , and you think , my God , what on earth have the elected members been doing when you actually see the level of rates that they have set . |
| 15 | yeah and , and you look at the clock at five too , five too and that 's it |
| 16 | They lack confidence , simple as that and one of the things is that as a group you come in and you probably look at people when you and you look at the trainers and the idea is that early on people can do , can keep some eye contact gon na stare you out but just keeping your eyes and do n't flit away and also when you 're under pressure at this stage his eyes challenge you or something like that , then your eyes go down . |
| 17 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 18 | And you look at the chair just to make sure there is n't a pool on there ! |
| 19 | But they are n't normal , are they , I mean , you look at N M E and you look at the language they use , I mean , that 's not normal . |
| 20 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 21 | Time 's getting on and you glance at the clock , |
| 22 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 23 | Race 's power to surprise fades as we progress through the 400-odd pages of ‘ raw ’ talk and we arrive at the conclusion more exhausted than enthralled . |
| 24 | Father , we are thankful for the work that has been completed on the church building and we rejoice at the skills and abilities that have made it possible . |
| 25 | And we look at the slip and we think oh yeah , |
| 26 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 27 | There are three Wraithwisps for each adventurer , and they appear at the rate of four per round . |
| 28 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 29 | What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth . |
| 30 | The bark starts them all off and they howl at the moon for a few minutes . |