Example sentences of "and [verb] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she has promised a reward to whosoever finds the keys : if it is a man , he is to marry the princess and be her husband and true love ; if it is a maiden she will become the princess 's first lady-in-waiting and sit at her left hand . |
| 2 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 3 | Fear of the owl makes the birds want to flee and anger at its obtrusive presence makes them want to attack . |
| 4 | Sobbing with rage and fear at her utter helplessness compared to the superior weight and strength of the man above her , Isabel could only submit . |
| 5 | So if the chart specifies an outbound time of , say , 2 minutes , this must be converted into a distance and flown at your estimated groundspeed . |
| 6 | He seated himself on the cold tiles and picked at their dark dusty colours with one finger . |
| 7 | Desperate ways to achieve desperate means Alan Murray charts the IRA 's strategy of using civilian carnage to further its message and looks at its possible next moves |
| 8 | The cottage was acquired by the museum and , under the combined direction of Mr John Severn , a Nottingham Architect , the County Architects Department and Professor Maurice Barley , the cottage was moved , stick by stick , and re-assembled at its new site . |
| 9 | He took the cheroot from his mouth and peered at its slobbered-on green end , as if it were a reptilian rump about to grow a new tail . |
| 10 | He put the papers down when he had finished them and looked at her long and steadily . |
| 11 | Her rolled-up handkerchief was already soaked through but she went on twisting it round and round in her fingers and dabbing at her wet face . |
| 12 | It let go of Delaney , screaming and clawing at its hooded eyes , as the spray added layer upon layer of foam . |
| 13 | When the baglady enters the hushed cafeteria and threads steadily past the skewered tables , when the derelict stands and faces the oncoming crowds and arrives at his soft selection , we all know who they have in mind . |
| 14 | Lorton rinsed the lather from his skin and frowned at his clean-shaven face . |
| 15 | How far are students encouraged to ‘ stand back ’ from the discipline , and look at its philosophical implications ? |
| 16 | Please talk to your colleagues and look at your sentencing policy . |
| 17 | Therapist : ‘ OK , now let's come up-to-date and look at your present situation . |
| 18 | Erm so if I could pu come up with a plan er to fund a pension and take this away and look at your particular situation over the twenty five year period , would you be quite happy to er look at that providing you 're happy with the er the money , the sum in involved and all the rest of it ? |
| 19 | I 'm not thirty yet and look at my grey hair ! |
| 20 | The heart-throb country and western singer , at No. 6 with Achy Breaky Heart , is fed up with female fans grabbing and pulling at his famous ponytail . |
| 21 | I arranged a number of meetings with various staff : with the director of nursing services to discuss the status of the ENP and to look at her additional skills ; with our business manager to discuss possible auditing tools for the scheme , availability of statistics , and so on ; with the A&E consultant , to look at my long term training needs and the |
| 22 | Besides groups of bronze statuettes by Degas and Henry Moore , notable works include Miró 's ‘ Tëte ’ ( 1974 ) , ‘ Oedipus II ’ ( 1962 ) , a stone and bronze sculpture by William Turnbull , Kim Lim 's ‘ River-Stone ’ , a new standing block of Calacatta Siena marble , delicately decorated with incisions , a vast wall sculpture ( 1987 ) created by Mimmo Paladino from gold and encaustic and bronze , and Julian Schnabel 's ‘ Jacqueline ’ , a bronze bust of his former wife mounted on a steel platform and shown at his retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1987 . |
| 23 | ( Grunte settled down comfortably and glanced at his Daily Mail ; Angela never used one word where three would ‘ suffice ’ . ) |
| 24 | ‘ Well , that 's once , ’ murmured Isabel sceptically , and grinned at her new sister-in-law . |
| 25 | The Reverend Witherspoon shook his head and grinned at his tall friend . |
| 26 | Usually when I sit and stare at my blank sheets of A4 paper every month , I am trying to think how I can help you with your Duomatic machines . |
| 27 | There Baron Grimm heard Wolfgang again , and marvelled at his remarkable prowess . |
| 28 | Employed as ‘ couture assistant ’ to David Emanuel and based at their exclusive Knightsbridge couture salon , Alison-Jayne was involved in all aspects of the couture business . |
| 29 | For example , when I left Clifton and had two years to kill before Cambridge , I went back and taught at my old prep school for £5 a week . |
| 30 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |