Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dr Jopek , forty-one , completed his doctorate on German fifteenth-century alabasters in 1984 , and has worked at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and for the episcopal administration and Amt für Denkmalpflege ( protection of monuments ) in Trier . |
| 4 | She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years . |
| 5 | He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them . |
| 6 | At the same time , the video head drum , which rotates 1500 times a minute , stops dead and starts spinning at the same speed in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | We are made to share his view , and with it his plans and hopes to gain at the expense of good . |
| 8 | For example , when she accompanies the boys on an illicit night-time visit to the woods in order to retrieve the gun from the crashed aeroplane , she drops the torch , breaks it ( having previously failed to hold it straight ) , and begins to cry at the thought of dead bodies . |