Example sentences of "and [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 2 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 3 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 4 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 5 | Outside diners are given a choice of fish or meat main course when they book , and sit at smaller tables around the antique-filled dining room . |
| 6 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 7 | I did n't see it for ages because I was too busy sticking an old rotten fence-post out through the slits in the pillbox , pretending it was a gun and firing at imaginary ships . |
| 8 | Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals so as to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction . |
| 9 | All components on and below the solebar were fitted and riveted at this stage , for example , spring shoes . |
| 10 | Aspirates were immediately treated with anticoagulant ( 9:1 v/v 10% EDTA ) and centrifuges at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes . |
| 11 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 12 | ‘ I am very flattered and honoured at this appointment . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a sort of drug , travelling , ’ Minton wrote to a friend in July 1953 , ‘ which seems to prevent me thinking — I feel vaguely irresponsible and peer at historic monuments . |
| 14 | At the other end of the scale there are meals that will linger in the mind long after the credit card has recovered , and blowouts at top restaurants still tend to be cheaper than their London counterparts . |
| 15 | I picture in my mind the womb , small and malleable as the heart muscle , expanding and contracting at ludicrous speed . |
| 16 | There was dancing and singing at various points — the chatter and whir of castanets , the hoarse yelps and anguished arias of flamenco , the pistol-like crepitations of zapateado , the sharp slow hand-claps of café patrons calling waiters . |
| 17 | The crown prince 's grandfather , Emperor Hirohito , spent most of his life inside his palace , performing Shinto rites and gazing at small fish . |
| 18 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 19 | This subject is raised again and treated at some length in a more empirical context in chapter 7 . |
| 20 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
| 21 | As antimalarial drugs were desperately needed during the war , it is startling to realize that chloroquine was first synthesized several years before the war and recognized at that time as having antimalarial activity . |
| 22 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 23 | In Cryptopygus antarcticus , the subject of intensive studies by Tilbrook ( 1977 ) and Block ( 1982 ) , specimens from South Georgia were on average smaller and lighter in weight , and matured at smaller size , than those from Signy Island , but respiration-weight and metabolism-temperature curves of the two stocks were similar . |
| 24 | The Secretary shall minute the proceedings of each meeting such minutes to be produced , and read and passed at each sederunt . |
| 25 | A motion was proposed and passed at that meeting , which set out general suggestions concerning a possible way forward . |
| 26 | Everyone was beaming and weeping at this display , this proof of human richness . |
| 27 | The new housing will mean a whole new way of life for the residents , who are being informed and consulted at all stages of the development . |
| 28 | The most important element of this optimism is that the counselling approach implies that growth is a continuous process during which our potential capacities can be drawn upon and developed at any period of life , including old age . |
| 29 | Clearly , in order to obtain this kind of information it is necessary to conduct three assessments under similar conditions so that they are directly comparable and spaced at equal time intervals . |
| 30 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |