Example sentences of "and [vb infin] at [adj] " 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 | Excursions : Enterprise have arranged much for you to see and do at reasonable prices . |
| 5 | The Act also empowers the Secretary of State to define the structure and content of each of these subjects in considerable detail , and to specify what pupils of different abilities should study and achieve at various ages . |
| 6 | And I mean in that way you might sort of really want to go and look at one of these erm er sort of er rather awful inner city areas . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ And I would ask you , Mr Stevens , to turn around and look at that Chinaman . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Let's go and look at that henhouse . |
| 10 | ‘ Could n't we go and look at that as well ? ’ |
| 11 | Let us go and look at that tree . |
| 12 | Well let's decide and look at that then . |
| 13 | I 'll go and look at that potato thing and the meat and then I 'll see . |
| 14 | And it 's quite interesting to , to go and look at that road now and see just what it 's like . |
| 15 | You can stand here and look at all these trees which come from all over the world , and we 're open all year round and there 's always something to see , and the views are spectacular . |
| 16 | I wished he would go away so that I could go upstairs and look at all my clothes . |
| 17 | We 'll have to go and look at all the blokes playing rugby again ! |
| 18 | We hurry them on when they want to stop and look at some new marvel . |
| 19 | Now that we have considered the type of information which the law deems as illegitimate for stock market trading , let us move on and look at some of the circumstances when trading on the basis of such information is illegal . |
| 20 | And I 've got ta try and look at some poetry . |
| 21 | It 'll be necessary for all of us to go back and look at those very very carefully and to think to what extent they address the kinds of problems that we can actually see developing , the kinds of things which we are fighting our way away from in the statutory services and yet might find that they are growing in an uncontrolled way in the development of the private sector . |
| 22 | If you get a firm that 's doing big removals , inside the cost of that is the cost of an estimator to go around and look at half the jobs he 's not going to get . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh do shut up and look at these maps with me . |
| 24 | 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 ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I need to go and look at this furniture for the house , ’ she admitted . |
| 27 | Patrick you know where I would like to go and look at this thing we have |
| 28 | In reality , however , the difference between him and a shareholder may not be anything like as clear-cut , for the debenture may give the holder a contractual right : — to appoint a director ; to a share of profits ( whether or not available for dividend ) ; to repayment at a premium ; to attend and vote at general meetings and even to convert his debentures into equity shares . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The TPU provides a flexible layer , allowing the materials to expand and contract at different rates without delaminating . |