Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The digits move along one step at a time and eventually arrive at the end of the chain whereupon they are fed along the line . |
| 2 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 3 | Head down , they race to departments , charge at the shelves and scarcely look at the price before stampeding to the cash tills . |
| 4 | We do this by assuming that it is in fact cooperative , and then asking ourselves what possible connection there could be between the location of Bill and the location of a yellow VW , and thus arrive at the suggestion ( which B effectively conveys ) that , if Bill has a yellow VW , he may be in Sue 's house . |
| 5 | So whether it means add or take away or subtract or negative we can sort of forget about it and just look at the signs so if get if we get take away plus three , that will be the same as take away plus three , yeah ? |
| 6 | And just look at the problems which had faced poor Candide . |
| 7 | All she 'd done was to try and help Travis a little at a very bad time in his life , and just look at the aggravation she was getting for her trouble ! |
| 8 | I do n't wonder whether it would be helpful just step back a bit and just look at the county council 's view as to how it should treat migration in the light of what the Secretary of State has approved on two occasions , when this issue has come up . |
| 9 | So be a good chap and just look at the sights , do a little shopping , try to get to a football game … ’ |
| 10 | Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole . |
| 11 | Leader of the research team Professor Raj Bhopal from Newcastle University said the study would look at the hidden features of deprivation , and people 's lifestyles , and also look at the environment , particularly air pollution . |
| 12 | They approach the Ben from its wide whale-backed side , and hence stand at the top of these cliffs without being able to view them . |
| 13 | well when you 're a bit bigger perhaps your mummy I 'll buy some , you just look at your feet , compare your feet with mine look look at your feet , yes look , look at the size of your feet and then look at the size of mummy 's , look , who 's feet are biggest ? |
| 14 | II.C. ’ , and then look at the descendants of that category ; or go still higher to ‘ 2 . |
| 15 | Answer the three questions below and then look at the photograph on the right . |
| 16 | I 've never found that a congenial notion ; it seemed to me that there were ways to be quite contemporary and yet go at the art in a fashion that would allow you to tell complicated stories simply for the aesthetic pleasure of complexity of complication and unravelment , suspense , and the rest . |