Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 The Elder Statesman received less than adulatory notices , and failed to succeed at the box office , he was noticeably calm in his reaction . |
| 3 | Gone are the days when a hand-painted sign advertising a ‘ Real working farm experience ’ meant the townie parents paid £10 and got to look at an old plough while their children cuddled a fat , flop-eared rabbit . |
| 4 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 5 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 6 | Penry Vaughan ducked his tall head through the doorway and moved to stand at the foot of the bed in the shadows beyond the arc of light from the small lamp . |
| 7 | The goat stopped abruptly and tried to chew at the hem of Mrs Hollidaye 's brown jacket . |
| 8 | He bent to the carabineer at his waist , and tried to chew at the knot , to make it more supple . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue . |
| 11 | He sheathed his dagger , whispered to Ranulf and Maltote to wait at the top of the alleyway , and knocked gently on the shop door . |
| 12 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 13 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 14 | The Act buttressed the law on trespass with two new criminal offences : using or threatening violence in order to obtain entry to any premises , and occupying a house or flat and refusing to leave at the request of the rightful occupier . |
| 15 | When he married he rented a rambling red-brick Georgian house two miles away and bicycled to work at the forge most days . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Paul calls his children the Tribbles , after the small furry creatures that make strange cooing noises and seem to reproduce at an alarming rate . |
| 18 | As soon as they were amongst the shuttered houses of Edinburgh , Corbett slowed down and turned to grin at the pale , terrified face of Ranulf . |
| 19 | Mobuto climbed out slowly and turned to wave at the waiting photographers . |
| 20 | Luke dropped his grip on her and turned to glance at the door , as if he intended to go and put his question to the man himself . |
| 21 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 22 | In the wives ' hostel Jocelyn finished unpacking and turned to look at the other occupant of the room a pleasant woman of thirty five who had introduced herself as Jane Smith . |
| 23 | For the non-colinear case , Hauser and Ernst have found it convenient to work with the complex function Z defined by ( 11.5 ) and to use the transformation ( 12.20 ) which consists of a rotation and rescaling to put at the point of collision when and . |
| 24 | ‘ Good girl , ’ Lacuna said absently , and returned to sit at the bank of screens . |
| 25 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 26 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 27 | When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy . |
| 28 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 29 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |
| 30 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |