Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 32 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
| 33 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
| 34 | I went on an induction course down in Bournemouth , which was all technical , er , I came back to see my first clients , and I cringed at the thought of it . |
| 35 | Stiff Little Fingers was my life when I was younger and I jumped at the idea of being able to do a few gigs without spending months away from home and having to worry about recording a new album as soon as we finished . |
| 36 | I signed him for Middlesbrough , and I jumped at the chance to sign him again here . |
| 37 | Phil : Well I would say that if I had my life over again I wish and hope that everything happens the same , and I think at the end of the day Becky had been the cream on top of the cake … |
| 38 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 39 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 40 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 41 | I think you 've got to do something drastic , at the end of last year a considerable number of working parties and committees were actually reduced or eliminated , and I look at education and I look at the sub- committees of education , they 've all been replaced by working parties now that meet more and more regularly . |
| 42 | Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley . |
| 43 | The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer . |
| 44 | And I recall at the beginning of the war , they got a an almost light-proof black out curtaining , and I can re see it today , The Queen bought some , they were on exhibition . |
| 45 | ‘ Is the candle at Paul 's church connected with the one Julia and I found at the asylum out-house ? |
| 46 | ‘ I especially liked the bit where Macaulay Culkin got covered in paint , and I cried at the end when he said he wanted his mummy for Christmas , ’ she said . |
| 47 | There was no advance planning to reach this figure and I decided at the beginning that I would not cut corners in an effort to keep within the budget . |
| 48 | High heels pattered across the cloakroom floor and someone pushed at the toilet door . |
| 49 | Foremost amongst the measures proposed in the latter instance was increased Aboriginal access to land , an issue upon which little progress had been made — with the possible exception of the sparsely populated Northern Territory — and which remained at the heart of much Aboriginal discontent . |
| 50 | It 's when you pick up one of the guns , feel the metal , that their potentiality strikes you , and you marvel at the precision and care put into them . |
| 51 | And you go at the speed that it warrants . |
| 52 | ‘ You 're tenacious and you get at the truth . |
| 53 | You go along , and you look at the other people , and the shops , and the traffic , and you never look up , not really up . |
| 54 | And you look at the er the preamble in the , in the order er the book of common order for baptism and it is designated for Christian people , that particular rite of passage . |
| 55 | alright and if you look at the diagram on page thirteen and you look at the little arrow diagram you 'll see that it gives it quite nice and clearly there is that alright ? |
| 56 | Well if , if you look at erm a female worker , er as opposed to a male worker and you look at the o oppression that she suffers , does she not suffer both the oppression of being working and the oppression of being a woman ? |
| 57 | I mean now , the erm the social workers erm are care managers in a lot of cases , in other words it may be contracted out to somebody else to do the actual caring and you look at the package which the client is getting , you know it might be I du n no some old dear who needs meals on wheels and visits every week or something |
| 58 | They lack confidence , simple as that and one of the things is that as a group you come in and you probably look at people when you and you look at the trainers and the idea is that early on people can do , can keep some eye contact gon na stare you out but just keeping your eyes and do n't flit away and also when you 're under pressure at this stage his eyes challenge you or something like that , then your eyes go down . |
| 59 | You go into various parts of the er south west , where their labour control and you look at the state of their buildings , and you think , my God , what on earth have the elected members been doing when you actually see the level of rates that they have set . |
| 60 | Well once again if you look at the er er if you look at the full page which costs nine hundred pound on a on a golf club score card and you look at the full page in the A five booklet |