Example sentences of "to [noun] and [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He kissed his mother on the cheek , nodded to Becky and turning at the door , saluted his father in the chair , then was gone . |
| 2 | The German stopped moving his head from side to side and looked at me . |
| 3 | During 1902 Belle was able to return to Johannesburg and retrieve at least some of her possessions . |
| 4 | Freestyle Ramps will provide the ramp , in the form of a brand new big vert job , which will then be shipped back to England and used at the Town and Country show this year as well . |
| 5 | In an attempt to further his rugby career , McKenzie loaded up his car and headed north to Sydney and arrived at Randwick . |
| 6 | We can apply this thinking to organisations and look at how they interact with their environment and with other organisations . |
| 7 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 8 | She snapped to attention and glared at Roman — he was the one who was going to sleep ; she must remain alert . |
| 9 | Lin Foh said nothing , stood stiffly to attention and stared at Cowley as Cowley said his piece . |
| 10 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 11 | She walked across to Georg and looked at him the way she looked at Gesner . |
| 12 | Interest paid was down from £3.1m to £1.2m and gearing at the year-end was 9 per cent . |
| 13 | ‘ She could have had his body taken back to Liverpool and buried at home , ’ Maureen said . |
| 14 | This chapter discusses the notion of planning , examines different approaches to planning and looks at the changes in attitudes to planning that have taken place . |
| 15 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |
| 16 | A wayward child , forever up to mischief and straining at the bit to dash around , is not necessarily hyperactive . |
| 17 | I mean he went off to Italy and bought at great expense a wire saw , have had a wire saw for years and that has n't proved successful . |
| 18 | Bring out all needles to HP and look at them . |
| 19 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 20 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 21 | One solution adopted by Iran appears to have been to send crude off to Aden or other refining centres abroad like Singapore and Italy for processing into products to be sent back to Iran and discharged at storage facilities available at terminals on Gulf islands like Lavan . |
| 22 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 23 | Also known as Malayo-Polynesian , this is spoken over a vast area from Madagascar to Aotearoa(NZ) and includes at least 500 languages . |
| 24 | Rico was pointing to her , but his mother advanced into the room and , pushing him aside , went to Noreen and looked at her arm . |
| 25 | The pipe is cut to length and chamfered at about 45° ( so that it will enter the fitting more easily ) and lubricated with special silicone lubricant before being pushed into the fitting . |
| 26 | The most substantial of these shows in all respects — ‘ Monumental Reputation ’ — which is devoted to the intriguing story behind the making of Adam 's lavish publication The Ruins of the Emperor Diocletian 's Palace at Spalatro ( sic ) , has now been transferred from the National Library of Scotland to London and continues at the Iveagh Bequest , Kenwood , until 28 February 1993 . |
| 27 | A week later , after two more meetings , the Bolton management was invited to London and entertained at the Euston Hotel . |
| 28 | Following the failure of the attempt to get Edinburgh to grant medical degrees to women , she moved to London and qualified at the new Medical College for Women in 1873 , but practised only briefly . |
| 29 | On goes the road in a series of turns and twists and interesting situations , with intriguing glimpses of the coast and the wide sweep of Eddrachillis Bay , and then the vast seascape is fully revealed as the road comes alongside the lovely Clashnessie Bay , bounded and sheltered in the west by a peninsula that thrusts far out to sea and ends at the rocky Point of Stoer . |
| 30 | To be vulnerable to pain and love at one and the same time is to be close to the ground of our very being . |