Example sentences of "and [vb infin] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 2 | Being a good and persuasive talker is a must for this work as you may have to get up and speak at a sales conference or at an agency presentation . |
| 3 | There are other places she could go to , of course , but so many of them would be clubs in which she would be expected to communicate and contribute at a time when all she wants is occasionally simply to be ‘ with ’ people and to be able to depart when she wishes without giving offence or disturbing the gathering . |
| 4 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 5 | You have to be very patient , you wan na try and look at a situation where they might wan na do it for five , ten , 15 , 20 years . |
| 6 | They decide to go and look at a new house they passed earlier in the day . |
| 7 | I mean , for a child to have to sit and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day — it 's totally out of order , you know . |
| 8 | Bob felt obliged to go and look at a certain number of these places out of politeness . |
| 9 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 10 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 11 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 12 | Lecture notes should never consist of many words , for the presence of such a mass of words will make the notes difficult to assimilate and understand at a later stage . |
| 13 | From there the single line emerged onto the road , and along one side of it the train to West Cork would puff and blow at a brisk but not incautious pace , its smoke staining the leaves of the roadside trees , the guard ringing his bell almost without stop until they were approaching Carrigrohane and could reasonably expect to be out of range of busy pedestrians , excited children , and messenger boys on bicycles plaguing the engine-driver by trying to outspeed him . |
| 14 | Any member of a company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting is entitled to appoint another person ( whether a member or not ) as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him . |
| 15 | Some mares will actually stand and paw at a paddock fence because they want to get to a stallion that is a couple of paddocks away — consequently they are likely to cut a leg or rip off a shoe if the bottom wire of the fence is too close to the ground . |
| 16 | John learned to read and write at a local school . |
| 17 | In the legend Tristan is condemned to death by his uncle Mark for having fallen in love with Iseult , but on his way to his death is allowed to pause and pray at a wayside chapel . |
| 18 | I invite her to come and sit at a table with Kurowski and me , but she prefers to remain on duty at the bar . |