Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we go on refusing to accept our true age and try instead to remain at a stage of life to which we no longer properly belong , then looking younger than our years is a false statement . |
| 2 | We can and often should stop reasoning about art , and go instead to look at a painting , listen to some music , read a poem . |
| 3 | In that case , shopkeepers and manufacturers might be prepared to drop their profit margins , absorb the tax and go on selling at the same price . |
| 4 | My mind locks in : take it steady , keep cool and do n't kick at the ice ! |
| 5 | The police are directed not to the Polytechnique , but to a nearby student residence , and do not arrive at the Polytechnique until nearly twenty minutes past five . |
| 6 | Whatever the wedding organizers decide , it is important to let the toastmaster and the speechmakers know , so that they are prepared and do not disappear at the vital moment . |
| 7 | As a result of different levels of personal mobility , the former types of place have tended to attract people who are younger , better qualified , more enterprising and more wealthy and have thus gained at the expense of the larger cities and less dynamic industrial areas , causing the latter a double blow in terms of both quantity and quality . |
| 8 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |