Example sentences of "and [verb] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are kindly , educated people many of whom have spent their lives helping others and to whom fate has dealt a cruel , unexpected blow , leaving them bereaved and frightened at a time of approaching frailty . |
| 2 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 3 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 4 | Many opponents of the measures fear that small farmers and others in developing countries will be restricted from using traditional seed varieties and placed at a disadvantage as a result . |
| 5 | Mr Attwooll said Gregory was driving John Wright when Gregory said he had an errand to run and stopped at a house in Billingham . |
| 6 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 7 | But if the profit was earned by the exploitation of property assets as by letting property , lending money or dealing in commodities or securities by buying and reselling at a profit , the profit will have arisen in or derived from the place where the property was let , the money was lent or the contracts of purchase and sale were effected . |
| 8 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , as we were agreed that we had power to do so , we made an emergency order enabling her to be taken to and treated at a specialist hospital in London , notwithstanding the lack of consent on her part . |
| 10 | If not , she will pretend to look straight through him and pick at a plant leaf hoping he will go away . |
| 11 | I drafted a statement for the trade union , detailing the nature of their support for me and hinting at a readiness to take further action were the matter not resolved in days . |
| 12 | There are also plans for an Evening Bus Run with High Tea and Dance at a west coast venue on a date to be arranged in June . |
| 13 | Victoria turned over in her sleep and cooed at a dream . |
| 14 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 15 | A hand was clapped roughly over her mouth , and she was almost lifted up by the arms and moved at a run back into the house , where Mrs Prynn was waiting in her nightcap and gown , with the trap door into the cellar open and the key in her hand . |
| 16 | We all take drugs in some form or another , some are legal , you can buy them over the counter or your G P may prescribe , those are illegal , but still widely available and used at a price . |
| 17 | The vineyards of Bisseuil are set some distance back from the village and grow at a height of about 160 metres on the south-east-facing slopes of Mont Aigu , which forms the eastern side of the Val d'Or in which Avenay is located . |
| 18 | The dead room ( mortuary ) was provided with a table and shell at a cost of £1.4s.0d . |
| 19 | This report was accepted by the Tyne District and considered at a meeting of the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation on 17 November 1911 , where the views of the North of England Association carried the day and it was resolved " that the recognition of the Seamen 's Union should be based upon freedom of contract and the employment of union and/or non-union seamen and firemen , free from interference of one with the other " . |
| 20 | This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster |
| 21 | If one suspends judgement and looks at a cross-section of these novels , one comes away quite impressed . |
| 22 | She was brought up in County Dublin and educated at a convent school and at Dublin 's University College . |
| 23 | Contained in a weatherproof box and installed at a convention location underwater , the instrument , known as " Cyclops " , is programmed to monitor key parameters such as turbidity , temperature and acidity . |
| 24 | THE Princess of Wales arrived smiling and laughing at a Christmas concert last night . |
| 25 | He took up a fork and prodded at a dish of small silvery fish marinated in olive oil , garlic and wine vinegar . |
| 26 | The pattern consisted of repetitive peristaltic contractions in the body of the oesophagus not related to swallowing and occurring at a rhythm of four to eight contractions per minute and lasting for periods of two to eight minutes . |
| 27 | The Reverend Dr James Massey , General Secretary of the Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , teaches publishing and bookselling at a workshop in Bangladesh . |
| 28 | But where the crossing is controlled the offences such as failing to accord precedence and overtaking at a crossing can not be committed . |
| 29 | Figure 14.4 shows a number of entries concerned with ‘ land ’ and its variants and located at a variety of places in the main sequence . |
| 30 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |