Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September . |
| 2 | When we redesigned the bathroom in our Victorian terrace , we fitted a shower in one of the bedrooms , to allow dismantling and fitting to proceed at a more leisurely pace . |
| 3 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 4 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 5 | So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's . |
| 6 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 7 | So , an ‘ epidemic ’ of heroin use occurs when incidence rises ( above the normal , endemic level of use ) and continues to rise at a rate higher than the outcidence rate . |
| 8 | But something did delay her ; she stopped and stood to stare at a marvel of nature , so strange as to suspend belief . |
| 9 | Craxi vehemently denied the allegations and refused to resign at a closed meeting of the party executive on Dec. 17 . |
| 10 | There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours , awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one . |