Example sentences of "and [vb infin] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 2 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 4 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 5 | We have a mission to widen access to higher education and to teach and research at the highest possible level . |
| 6 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 7 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 8 | Perhaps we three could go and eat at the Cross Keys in Chelsea . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 10 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 11 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 12 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 13 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |
| 14 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
| 15 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 16 | The chorus-master , you may say , could move forward and glance at the baton ; so he does : but … if a crowd of dancers occupies the downstage area , the baton is no longer visible . |
| 17 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 18 | Many from eastern parts and western parts will come and decline at the table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens and erm as regards to these ones , Abraham , Isaac and Jacob erm , at the kingdom of the heavens , while these ones were born before Jesus were n't they ? |
| 19 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
| 20 | A quick end , rather than torture and rape at the hands of those barbarians in the hall . |
| 21 | Inside , Virgin 's pilots are landing on runway twenty seven at Heathrow , in the simulator they can take off and land as often as they like at this the world 's busiest airport , but in real life Virgin says it has to fight for slots to take off and land at the times to suit business travellers , it blames B A. B A says it does n't allocate slots or monopolize Heathrow Airport . |
| 22 | Try to push and lift at the same time — go on , try to get the back wheels off the ground as you go along ! |
| 23 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 24 | ‘ Would you like to go down and look at the inscriptions on the slabs ? ’ |
| 25 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
| 26 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 27 | ‘ While you 're brushing down your overcoat , Anne , Christine and I will go and look at the tree and see if we can climb up to the apples . ’ |
| 28 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 29 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 30 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |