Example sentences of "and [vb infin] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 2 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 3 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 4 | The chorus-master , you may say , could move forward and glance at the baton ; so he does : but … if a crowd of dancers occupies the downstage area , the baton is no longer visible . |
| 5 | Many from eastern parts and western parts will come and decline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens and erm as regards to these ones , Abraham , Isaac and Jacob erm , at the kingdom of the heavens , while these ones were born before Jesus were n't they ? |
| 6 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 7 | I mean , for a child to have to sit and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day — it 's totally out of order , you know . |
| 8 | You have to be very patient , you wan na try and look at a situation where they might wan na do it for five , ten , 15 , 20 years . |
| 9 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 10 | Well I think I 'd better go and look at the jam again . |
| 11 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 12 | ‘ While you 're brushing down your overcoat , Anne , Christine and I will go and look at the tree and see if we can climb up to the apples . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I should like to go and look at the sea . ’ |
| 14 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 15 | she said do you wan na come in and look at the kitchen now and I said no I wo n't stop now I 'll work |
| 16 | And then we can go on and look at the passage , which brings together the words of the widow and Elisha and the actions of God . |
| 17 | ‘ I must go and look at the chicken pie , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 18 | So all I 'm saying is , if we 're not achieving that we need to go back and look at the way in which we 're operating the fax service , have a chat with erm Phil 's people or Jackie 's peo see if there 's any differences that we can take advantage of . |
| 19 | So when we actually got out there , we go out to work in some capacity or another , either to carry out a survey of the logistics or perhaps to sort out and look at the way in which one can set up an immunisation programme in a refugee camp . |
| 20 | The river is placid here , where it becomes patient in its long run to the sea and decides to slow and look at the land it passes through . |
| 21 | they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express |
| 22 | What we want local communities to do is to get together and look at the situation on the ground , that is to say the council , the police , the magistrates , the brewers , people who run fast food shops , the planners . |
| 23 | ‘ Let's go and look at the railway , ’ said Peter . |
| 24 | Er we pride ourselves on our housekeeping , it 's a selling factor for us , and we have customers come round and look at the plant and they always commend us quite highly on our housekeeping . |
| 25 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 26 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 27 | I 'll just go and look at the underwear . |
| 28 | They 're trying to make the bottom bit look decent now , they keep buying things for it , but it never looks right you ca n't see it from here , we 'll go out and look at the garden after tea . " |
| 29 | Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there . |
| 30 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |