Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | I made contact with Sheringham through an agent and met him at a hotel . |
| 32 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 33 | If you open it up , if you do get it open , and advertise it at Boddingtons a pound a pint , get them straight to come in . |
| 34 | It must save you a lot of time being a spirit and seeing everything at once . |
| 35 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 36 | ‘ And seeing it at night … ’ |
| 37 | Eunice : Well , why do n't you just go and make yourself at home till they get back ? |
| 38 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 39 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 40 | Something which , if I lived to be two hundred years old then went and announced it at St Paul 's Cross , would rock the very throne of England and scandalise the courts of Europe ! |
| 41 | Far from reducing taxation , as we had been elected to do , we would have to raise it — and raise it at a time when local councils were already pushing up rates . |
| 42 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 43 | Edwards acquired the famous Maffeo Pinelli collection of early printed books from Venice and sold it at auction in 1789 and 1790 . |
| 44 | The French and Norman lands matter most to Waleran , who can wonder that he 's gone over there and made himself at least acceptable to Geoffrey , rather than risk being dispossessed . |
| 45 | Half way up , Springsteen shot through his legs and passed me at about Mach 5 , doing a handbrake turn at the bottom of the stairs and heading for the back door . |
| 46 | It 's great to see those guys out here , giving pleasure and enjoying themselves at the same time . |
| 47 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 48 | PostScript sacrificed performance for flexibility and , as a result , is capable of taking the same original information and producing it at any output resolution ; 72 , 300 , 1270 or 2540dpi . |
| 49 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 50 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 51 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 52 | I rang Prentice as I could n't think how to put it off any longer , and got him at the second number he 'd left . |
| 53 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 54 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 55 | At which point two other giant rats sprang from the lower part of the building , jaws agape , and flung themselves at her . |
| 56 | Robyn swore and flung herself at the stove , trying to scrape what was left of the bacon away from the bottom of the pan . |
| 57 | Deliberately , he lifted the photograph and flung it at the fireplace . |
| 58 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 59 | She felt a warm rush of gratitude for his sensitivity as he kissed and played with her in a teasing , light-hearted way which both excited and disarmed her at first . |
| 60 | The increase in local stress , which can be calculated , depends solely upon the shape of the hole and has nothing at all to do with its size . |