Example sentences of "and [vb infin] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | British industry suffered a major crisis and needed to reorganise and rationalise at all levels . |
| 3 | ‘ People do get work that way but it 's horrible to sit and watch at those parties where there 's so much competition and everyone 's running around in tight frocks getting drunk ’ , she says . |
| 4 | Not only me , but poor Dave ( Paich ) too : we 'd just sit there and look at each other and go , ‘ This is wrong , ’ trying to get somebody to interpret our music . |
| 5 | Let us go and look at that tree . |
| 6 | And it 's quite interesting to , to go and look at that road now and see just what it 's like . |
| 7 | ‘ And I would ask you , Mr Stevens , to turn around and look at that Chinaman . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll go and look at that potato thing and the meat and then I 'll see . |
| 9 | ‘ Let's go and look at that henhouse . |
| 10 | And I 've got ta try and look at some poetry . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh do shut up and look at these maps with me . |
| 12 | ‘ I need to go and look at this furniture for the house , ’ she admitted . |
| 13 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 14 | There was also mild throat-clearing as Mr Major strode off towards the largest car ferry in Europe with the words : ‘ Let's go and look at this boat ! ’ |
| 15 | Patrick you know where I would like to go and look at this thing we have |
| 16 | A member entitled to attend and vote at this meeting may appoint a proxy or proxies to attend and , on a poll , vote instead of him or her . |
| 17 | In the static methods , changes in the temperature dependence of an intensive property , such as density or heat capacity are followed and measurements are carried out slowly , to allow the sample to equilibrate and relax at each observation temperature . |
| 18 | The great doors had been wrenched off their hinges , and anyone could come and go at all hours . |
| 19 | ( This is called ‘ open ’ form , for the piece can begin and end at any place . ) |
| 20 | For ‘ prodigies ’ ( ‘ Mr Binyon 's young prodigies ’ ) surely we ought to read ‘ protégés ’ ; and then it becomes possible to wonder whether the jocularity about bulldogs does n't mark a wistful or resentful sense that Binyon and Sturge Moore ( ‘ old Neptune ’ ) might have done more with their respective protégés than merely set them to sniff and snarl at each other 's heels ; to question whether the two senior writers could not have established themselves — at least for some purposes — as masters of ateliers in which the two young hopefuls might have enrolled as apprentices . |
| 21 | ‘ You do encourage potential residents to call in and inspect at any time , do n't you ? ’ |