Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |
| 2 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 3 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 4 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 5 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 6 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 7 | Second , the welfare state works as a kind of ‘ savings bank ’ , taking money at some points in each person 's life and returning it at another . |
| 8 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 9 | But as to why he knew God and obeyed him at all , his faith was not the least blind . |
| 10 | The minute they say well , no that 's no good to me , you 'll have to come and , you 'll have to come and see me at eight , say , well I 'm busy then I 'm afraid . |
| 11 | Her and Kate will come and see me at four o'clock and her and Kate will come and visit you . |
| 12 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | Giotto will fly to Halley 's comet in 1986 , and photograph it at close quarters . |
| 14 | He was concerned that preachers of the Word should also take it into homes and minister it at closer quarters . |
| 15 | He picked it up and opened it at random . |
| 16 | Kim picked the book up and opened it at random , then handed it back to Hammond . |
| 17 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 18 | You can purchase your first FREEDOM TICKET and renew it at any Post Office in Oxford or at The Broadway , Banbury Road or Mill Street offices in Kidlington itself . |
| 19 | ( iv ) If cells of known age are required , culture the isolated cells and examine them at hourly or half hourly intervals for division . |
| 20 | and selling them at seven . |
| 21 | The Capitulary of Thionville in 805 , for instance , forbids usury , the kind of usury which involved buying cheap corn in quantity and selling it at excessive profit in times of scarcity . |
| 22 | Daly started his first round at 1pm , and finished it at 7.30 the previous evening . |
| 23 | It was a case of , I mean we used to start and wash them at three o'clock in the morning because t you had to start then because you 'd never get it all done . |
| 24 | Sarah would not take a flying run , but with John and Nora running and holding her at each side , just catching the fringes of the grass , she had her stately share , too . |
| 25 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 26 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 27 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 28 | Some deaths , injuries and serious damage have been caused by young people who take other people 's cars and drive them at high speed . |
| 29 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 30 | His mouth met hers and her shocked little gasp turned to a moan of hunger as she closed her eyes and kissed him at last , at last , and the brandy glass fell from her hands , shattering at their feet as her arms went around his neck , her mouth opening hungrily beneath his , her hands in his black hair , her body pressing against his as they clung together with intolerable necessity , unaware of the fragments of glass they trampled as Damian pressed her tighter , tighter until there was not an inch between their bodies . |