Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | After mature deliberation your Committee venture to propose to you to entrust them with powers to digest a scheme for the medical department , to receive claims , and investigate the merits of the different candidates who may propose themselves to fill the different situations in this line , as well as of the subordinate attendants of the house , and to report to you at your next general meeting the names of such persons as to them appear most proper , for your final approbation . ’ |
| 2 | Gassendi adopted it enthusiastically and argued for it at great length . |
| 3 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 4 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 5 | She was about m add , ‘ I suppose that 's because you 're a tramp and sleep amongst them at night sometimes , ’ but stopped herself in time . |
| 6 | He brought the screaming Gilera four to the North West in ‘ 55 , and won on it at 97.60mph over the old course . |
| 7 | As we discovered in Part One , many of the initiators of conflict in later life are learned and impressed upon us at this vital period . |
| 8 | The primary source of their superior financial performance is capital gains from acquiring corporate assets and activities that , under present ownership , yield less than their opportunity values , and disposing of them at their higher market values . |
| 9 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 10 | With a joy to his flight that evidently surprised and alarmed them he turned and stooped towards them at speed , not to attack them so much as show them that he was a golden eagle and could fly where he pleased . |
| 11 | Early workings were always upon these outcrops , yet despite their equipment and methods ( all very labour intensive ) the " old men " sank up to 200 ft. on the Bonsor Vein prior to the Civil War , and drove into it at least two long adits or " stollen(s) " in hard rock without the aid of explosives . |
| 12 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 13 | They called to him twice before he heard , and then he started and came after them at a rapid walk , like a man driven by some urgent pain he could not slough off . |
| 14 | Bob 's phone rang , and while he was talking Dyson , who was sitting back in his chair and waiting for someone at the other end of the line , covered up the mouthpiece of his phone and said , ‘ Are you coming to the funeral , Tess ? ’ |
| 15 | So in the evening , after supper , Clara walked off by herself and caught the Métro and got off it at the Place Pigalle , for that was the only name on the Métro map that she recognized . |
| 16 | He shut the door of his apartment and turned to her at once , putting her shoulders against the wall , knocking her legs apart with his knee . |
| 17 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 18 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 19 | They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened . |
| 20 | It is essential , though , that the knowledge and skills people have are not taken from them , repackaged and sold to them at exorbitant prices . |
| 21 | ‘ KENDAL : Printed and Published , by R. Lough and Co. and Sold by them at the Chronicle Office , Finkle Street : also by J. Richardson , 91 , Royal Exchange , London ; Constable , Edinburgh ; Smith , Liverpool ; Messrs. I. Clark , and Co . |
| 22 | my Lord I I do have some other observations on matters with Mr but it maybe more economical and effective on the new issues to wait until after Mr has addressed you and to deal with them at one point |
| 23 | The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 . |
| 24 | ‘ an ungainly , awkward-looking man , extremely short-sighted and prematurely bald ’ who was ‘ perhaps about thirty , but … might have been almost any age between sixteen and sixty : being one of those strange creatures who never decline into ancient appearance , but look their oldest when they are very young , and get over it at once ’ . |
| 25 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 26 | He nodded towards Thomas , who had wandered off to squat down on the terrace and poke at something at the foot of the vines . |
| 27 | If I think the short-term one first , that 's perhaps the most obvious one , in the sense that most is written and talked about it at the moment , erm namely the cutbacks on expenditure in education . |
| 28 | For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time . |
| 29 | Come and talk to me at Easter . |
| 30 | ‘ Miss Kyte , ’ repeated the old lady , raising her eyeglass and staring through it at his face . |