Example sentences of "and [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They climb over the fence , and knock at the next-door maisonette . |
| 32 | Springing up , he took two steps across to it and peered at the glazed array of schoolboy faces . |
| 33 | He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler . |
| 34 | Sims took out a jeweller 's eyeglass and peered at the tiny negatives . |
| 35 | He frowned deeply and peered at the narrow line of black and white spaces hanging in the air in front of him . |
| 36 | They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages . |
| 37 | The Weasel stepped up to the horse and peered at the dishevelled figure . |
| 38 | Finally the iron pin would be attached to the hinge fitting , pointed at the catch-plate and coiled at the other end to form a spring hinge . |
| 39 | J. H. Newsom ( later Sir John ) was born in 1910 and educated at the Imperial Services College and Queen 's College , Oxford . |
| 40 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 41 | The Archon ignored him , stood up and shouted at the disappearing figure . |
| 42 | ‘ She could write a little essay on any subject , exactly a slate long , beginning at the left-hand top of one side and ending at the right-hand bottom of the other , and the essay should be strictly according to rule . ’ |
| 43 | Everybody reacted as one , condemning this nonsense and laughing at the bare-faced cheek of it . |
| 44 | When he shows a film or summat his room 's like a little cinema — you know , people sitting round watching the telly in the dark , and smoking and laughing at the funny bits and that . |
| 45 | For here his father was , sitting down beside him , hugging and kissing him , taking his hand again and laughing at the silly terrors his little game had aroused in his son . |
| 46 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 47 | Changes in proposed greenbelt boundaries affecting a given area , and occurring at the consultative draft stage of local plans and or pre-map stage and the formal deposit of those plans , and or between the deposit copies and proposals subsequently issued by county and local planning authorities by way of desired changes to deposit copies , militate against , and may totally inhibit in relation to that area , emergence within the meaning of the national doctrine most recently propagated in paragraph er within erm paragraph thirty two of the revised version of P P G number One . |
| 48 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 49 | He passed Caballeros and Bugner as they were holing out at the 15th and driving at the short 16th . |
| 50 | The letter said that collegiality was novel , unfounded , unscriptural , ‘ not even solidly probable ’ , and hinted at the powerful influence of ‘ non-doctrinal forces , whose aims and methods are not beyond reproach ’ ( by which they meant that the press was distorting the event by presenting it in terms of heroes and villains ) . |
| 51 | ‘ Feed him cotton wool sandwiches and wait at the other end ! ’ said the vet . |
| 52 | At this time , he said , ‘ All I wanted to do was to live , pick up a new Jag , and act at the Old Vic . ’ |
| 53 | He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead . |
| 54 | ‘ No , your Grace , for when he mustered what force he had left and drove at the Welsh knights , he could both ride and fight , and so did , and well . |
| 55 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 56 | Any necessary elections for tax purposes must be identified and made at the optimum times . |
| 57 | At the end of each row was the monitor who marked the attendance which , if regular , entitled you to a Prize at the end of the year , a book chosen from a list by the recipient and presented at the Annual Service on Low Sunday . |
| 58 | Optionally , fragments could be transcytosed across the enterocyte and presented at the basolateral membrane for immunocompetent cells , maybe initiating a pathological response in coeliac patients . |
| 59 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |
| 60 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |