Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Glenn Close 's stubborn and pain-ridden performance as Sunny makes you sad for her and hate her at the same time . |
| 2 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 3 | It is possible to make a single , and sell it at your own gigs , for quite a small sum of money ( see Chapter 13 , ‘ Doing it the Right Way ’ by Horace Trubridge ) . |
| 4 | Where a book might originally sell at £15 , Smith might buy it for £1.50 and sell it at £5.50 — a profit was turned , and the public benefited . |
| 5 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 6 | If you open it up , if you do get it open , and advertise it at Boddingtons a pound a pint , get them straight to come in . |
| 7 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 8 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 9 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 10 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 11 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 12 | There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night . |
| 13 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 14 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 15 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 16 | May I suggest that the government abolish forthwith the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , and replace it at once by a Foundation for Gardeners , Handymen , Babysitters and the Arts . |
| 17 | which is burnt off when the whole thing gets fired in the kiln , so what will have to happen is the , your pots you 've done so far , once they 're thoroughly dried and go into the kiln , they 're fired at a high temperature and then they 'll come out this bit fired you 'll then separate them with oxide pastes , dip them into glaze , which I 'll explain in a minute , and re-fire them at a higher temperature , the glazed would |
| 18 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 19 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 20 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 21 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd like to have hundreds and hundreds of dogs one day and show them at Crufts . ’ |
| 23 | unless they 're going to let , unless people are going to buy them and let them at a reasonable rent to people |
| 24 | We see a dancer at a rave , film him later that week , and project him at the next rave . ’ |
| 25 | Store your cheese in a cool part of the refrigerator and remove it at least 1hr before eating . |
| 26 | It 's a sort of That 's right push it through the hole and catch it at the other side . |
| 27 | The other source of embarrassment was the very real possibility that Dennis would stroll over at any moment and catch us at it . |
| 28 | No no the first mail run we had was just merely from to Rousay to collect the Rousay mails and dump them at the Rousay pier and they were sorted in Rousay for Egilsay and Wyre besides that . |
| 29 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 30 | The airlines , facing their fourth successive year in the red , are urging the EC to drop plans to lower maximum noise levels and nitrogen oxide emissions , arguing that they could increase operating costs , reduce the resale value of operators ' fleets and put them at a competitive disadvantage to international rivals . |