Example sentences of "[verb] at and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang the club I was appearing at and informed the Con-Sec that Marta Cane would be appearing in place of Zoe Bond who was ill . |
| 2 | This was just what he wanted — a good stick to pull at and play with . |
| 3 | If she has a male boss who has tantrums that would be more appropriate in a three-year-old , a boss who shouts at and bullies her , in the institutional world of male values , she will lose all respect if she cries . |
| 4 | You get really annoyed when they do n't know everything and they do and they ca n't answer your questions , apart from your parents I do n't think there 's one person , well me anyway , there 's not one person I 've looked at and thought oh well that 's what should be done . |
| 5 | He said when Mr Jones was taken to hospital to have his injuries looked at and photographed , he did not take the opportunity to be taken straight out of the Roberts ' home . |
| 6 | A a at the time , they were trying to get this place looked at and surveyed , and everything to get it , you know to see what they could do about it , get it closed down , but er they had n't got that far with that then . |
| 7 | should n't we use , try every effort to try and carry it off , perhaps that 's one that Jehovah 's looked at and said well there 's an area that they need to learn about , that need to understand a little more , they know nothing about that particular area , in the scriptures , now that 's a good one for them to have , we 'll make sure they get that , that way they 're going to learn , so if ever we always get the easy ones , the ones we know , the ones we 've done before , we think I can handle this , you never learn anything do we ? |
| 8 | It is unlikely you can accomplish what generations of warreners may have looked at and scratched their heads over before moving on . |
| 9 | In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed , with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness . |
| 10 | Each case must be looked at and dealt with on its own merits considering the circumstances and amounts involved . |
| 11 | All of our departments are built round customer needs therefore they need to be regularly looked at and updated . |
| 12 | Off-cuts of ‘ interesting ’ woods or ornate wooden strips for picture frames can be collected and put out to be handled , looked at and talked about . |
| 13 | Not an object to be looked at and admired . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) No individual provision in an agreement will be looked at and construed in isolation from the entire document ( and any documents subsidiary thereto , eg accession agreements , variations of particular clauses etc ) . |
| 15 | To determine whether there has been an infringement , the specification and , in particular , the claims for the patent must be looked at and interpreted to find the limits of the patent . |
| 16 | JANE requires you to guess at and check a set of mathematical functions without ever giving you the answers . ) |
| 17 | Subjects are taken back to childhood by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged , which leaves them feeling helpless and vulnerable . |
| 18 | Conducted professionally , regression therapy does not involve subjects being taken back to childhood ‘ by being put in nappies , bottle-fed and alternately shouted at and hugged … ’ |
| 19 | He 'd roar with laughter , I suppose , and then ask me what was all this about ‘ little ’ , and we 'd get into some absurd argument about whether he was five feet two or five feet four , end up reviling and swearing at and abusing each other in utter good humour as we used to do often several times a week on the ‘ phone . |
| 20 | Carl has been jumped on , shot at and held hostage . |
| 21 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 22 | By a notice of motion dated 11 September 1985 George Albert Auger , the trustee in bankruptcy of Winston Lloyd Dennis sought against Stuart Bernard Goodman and Hilgay Archer , the executors of the will of the wife of the bankrupt , and the bankrupt ( 1 ) a declaration that the trustee was in the events which , had happened solely and beneficially entitled as trustee of the property of the bankrupt to the property situate at and known as 100 , Gurney Road , West Ham , London E.15 registered at H.M. Land Registry and comprised in Title No . |
| 23 | Any exhibition is worth going looking at and thinking about , but I do think that that is an extraordinarily bad exhibition . |
| 24 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 25 | There is one further way of looking at and estimating the value of a right ( both complete and fractional ) . |
| 26 | Derby and Scotland agreed on the specification for an IMS administrative system PIROS ( after looking at and rejecting the available packages ) . |
| 27 | Says Jill : ‘ We do hope to see a return on our investment in gaining a better qualified , more capable and more enthusiastic performer , someone who perhaps returns to us armed with new ways of looking at and tackling problems , or an ability to analyse situations and develop concepts . |
| 28 | A man was walking past the girls across the street , looking at and talking to them in turn ; then he went off with one of them . |
| 29 | I bought the dress she was looking at and chatted to her about it . |
| 30 | A small number of the areas in the Castle are specifically designed to waste time — they are stuffed full of bits that adventurers , being adventurers , wo n't be able to resist looking at and playing with . |