Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 2 | Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so . |
| 3 | Back in August we joined forces with Cossack and asked you to look at your fella and tell us if the man of your dreams had turned into the man of your nightmares ! |
| 4 | ‘ This is all quite fascinating , ’ he said , drawing his umbrella from his starsuit and using it to point at the terminal entrance . |
| 5 | Cityscape , Hight Corners , and Terraces , has plenty of examples and demonstrations as well as introduces specific technical considerations and encourages us to look at and study architectural characteristics . |
| 6 | Laura groped in her coat pocket for a scrap of hanky , and used it to dab at her eyes . |
| 7 | This series took four British families , all with the surname Smith , and used it to look at aspects of life in contemporary Britain . |
| 8 | The latter is imagined to be a snake-like movement that translates the chain through the tube and allows it to escape at the tube ends . |
| 9 | If you 're short of worktops , a wooden block on wheels can be moved to a free space and allows you to work at a similar height to your kitchen worktop . |
| 10 | She 's got some and told her to stay at home . |
| 11 | Walker and McKinnon also deny stealing the car that night and Walker denies driving it recklessly and causing it to brake at speed . |
| 12 | Her eyes were rolling with terror as she began to struggle to free herself from the tenacious , sucking mud — struggles that only served to hasten the process and cause her to sink at an even greater rate . |
| 13 | This packet of light would disturb the particle and cause it to move at a speed in some direction . |
| 14 | In years she was senior to everyone including the infrequently seen Charlie ; as mother hen to the dancing girls she 'd taken Lucy in and allowed her to feel at home in a matter of hours . |
| 15 | When walking the fine line between bad taste and biting satire , offending your audience and getting them to laugh at themselves , Wayans is guided by only one credo : ‘ It 's our own imperfections which make us funny . |
| 16 | The president is ostensibly the driver of this large complex machine , but at the beginning of each new administration the question is : Will the man temporarily in charge of this unwieldy , temperamental vehicle be able to master its tricky controls and get it to move at all ? |
| 17 | The research develops a method for analysing this question , and applies it to look at change in manufacturing industry in London in the period 1976-81 . |
| 18 | By and by , Mrs M. stopped the car in a lonely place , and urged me to look at St Patrick 's Well . |
| 19 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 20 | Sit as close as you can to one side of the camera and ask them to look at you as they talk . |
| 21 | This means that someone must urgently bring his case to the attention of the Attorney General and ask him to look at it . |
| 22 | A notice apologising for keeping visitors waiting and inviting them to look at the booklets adds the finishing touch . |
| 23 | These factors take us beyond the study of language , in a narrow sense , and force us to look at other areas of inquiry — the mind , the body , society , the physical world — in fact , at everything . |
| 24 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 25 | Two dissident Myanma students hijacked a Myanma aircraft on a domestic flight and forced it to land at U-tapao military air base in Thailand on Oct. 6 , 1989 . |
| 26 | As a definition , this has its flaws but it can still help us understand better what health care should be about and enables us to work at improving health care provision . |
| 27 | ‘ I want you to withdraw all your people from the streets , to send them home and to tell them to stay at home , until at least after the Moulid . |
| 28 | ‘ I want you to withdraw all your people from the streets , to send them home and to tell them to stay at home . |