Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a common enough pressure in Hollywood , where all the studios played the committee 's game rather than risk loss at the box office . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | New world-patented TV glasses designed by two Hungarian engineers allow the wearer to walk and watch television at the same time . |
| 4 | But dreams are playful , and love to tease and poke fun at the truth … |
| 5 | Many thanks to the Essex teachers who had undertaken to provide and serve tea at the January meeting . |
| 6 | The car is generally occupied by an idiot or two gazing strictly ahead either with expressions that lead you to think that they are convinced they are doing everyone else a favour , or that they are only sitting down because they have insufficient brain to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 7 | Lyndon Johnson once remarked unkindly : " Jerry Ford is so dumb he ca n't walk and chew gum at the same time . " |
| 8 | We have to walk and chew gum at the same time . |
| 9 | To bear and deny depression at the same time may seem like yet another paradox , but my diaries testify that somehow I managed to do both . |