Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 Dalziel and Pascoe looked at each other for a long moment after the door had slammed behind Evans .
2 She spoke without animosity and Pascoe smiled at her apologetically .
3 But two days later he was on duty , coloured bright orange from iodine on cuts and bruises got at the elections which he had attended in the Jlulat interest .
4 Demonstrations and pickets collected at pit gates and shouted abuse at them , as they passed through in coaches .
5 Rosie and Doyle looked at Bernard simultaneously .
6 When Doyle located lot 18 , and found it to be totally overgrown and neglected , there was a man working on a neighbouring patch , and Doyle smiled at him as he walked past .
7 There are useful ‘ orbats ’ ; a good selection of photos includes portraits , museum exhibits , contemporary diagrammatic drawings of wagons , artillery pieces , Gatlings ; and groups taken at the time .
8 The need for centralization of the royal court and parliament led at last to the choice and subsequent development of Edinburgh as Scotland 's capital city .
9 Leicester could have gone up behind Ipswich on Saturday in the second automatic promotion spot in Division Two had they won at Charlton and Middlesbrough lost at home to Bristol Rovers .
10 It is in some of the drawings and sketches executed at Gosol that the facial types begin to harden towards the ‘ Iberian ’ style of the autumn .
11 A bead of non-setting mastic is applied to the external joints , between the aluminium and hardwood frames at head and jambs , and between timber frame and brickwork
12 We went into Julia 's room , and Holmes looked at the windows carefully .
13 And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’
14 The redirection will probably make Corollary the only company to produce a generic P5 multiprocessor board and chipset targeted at OEMs .
15 ‘ The system is characterised by union pluralism , complexity of the representative institutions at the enterprise level , and freedom to strike at any moment and on any issue ’ ( Delamotte , 1982 , p. 327 ) .
16 For her it worked because of one other factor — her ability and willingness to engage at some depth with the concepts , ideas and questions evoked by the material .
17 They do not provide the safety within which individuals can clarify and express their own feelings , perceptions and inchoate beliefs , for the staffroom cliques are based on certainty , and function to hold at bay doubt and anxiety .
18 Pakistani Foreign Affairs Secretary Shahryar Khan was quoted by the Washington Post of Feb. 7 as saying that Pakistan had the components and expertise to assemble at least one nuclear explosive device .
19 In place of vague ideological statements and piecemeal policies the primary sector now needs a substantial programme of professional development and support aimed at enhancing the curriculum expertise of all its primary staff , and targeted in the first instance on those aspects of the curriculum where studies like this have identified the greatest problems .
20 Their role will be to provide advice and support aimed at helping employees to stop the problem at source .
21 The command you can see starts or switches to Word for Windows ( the USEEXIST makes the button switch to Word if it 's already open , and the IMAX sizes its window to leave the Power Launcher toolbar clear at the top of the screen , and icons clear at the bottom ) .
22 Only in a few instances were brass or copper depositum plates provided , for it was more usual to outline the initials , date of death and age of the occupant on to the lid with black-headed upholstery nails with the possible addition of a skull and crossbones outlined at the head of the lid , whilst the sides were decorated with a single row of close-set nails all round .
23 Lexandro , Yeremi , and Biff stared at one another silently .
24 Police in Lyon have broken a large scale forgery ring which produced oil paintings and drawings attributed to modern masters including Utrillo , Chagall , Dérain and Dufy valued at ‘ several million francs ’ according to an early official statement .
25 Arafat went on to urge the world to take action to halt " the massacre Israel is currently committing against the Palestinian people in Rafah " ( a town and camp lying at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip ) .
26 Cattle and sheep move at a leisurely pace over the earthworks that mark where men once lived and worked .
27 Meanwhile , the remaining males carried on displaying wildly — Fitz and Rousseau remaining at a distance , and only Kendo daring to charge right over the scrum — all to no avail .
28 I keep remembering the last night we were here — same hotel and all — and how Matt and I went out and got stinko-paralytico together and ended up doing the Zorba dance and got thrown out and Matt pointing at me and saying to the waiters Hey do n't you recognize Mista Rick from Parkway Peninsula and they did n't and made us pay for the plates .
29 Later , when it was time for the evening meal , she entered the dining-room to find Silas and Matt seated at their corner table .
30 In the kitchen Michael and Sarah stared at one another , shocked .
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