Example sentences of "[vb base] and at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've asked an expert what he considers important , looked at what children really want and at what would make mums happy . |
| 2 | Here 's not a day when folk forget and at the Baiting House pub just north of Bromyard , there 's not a pint pulled without passers by talking of Nicolaus Silver with his jockey ; now the Landlord . |
| 3 | Before embarking upon such a course of action , heads and governors must decide how far down this entrepreneurial road they wish to go , what scale of profits they seek and at what possible cost to their pupils . |
| 4 | There used to be a programme that introduced new records on the radio , and my father was sailing somewhere and he had this little transistor all primed up , and he said proudly to his friend , ‘ This is my sons ’ record' and at that moment a wave hit the boat and the radio went overboard . |
| 5 | Other parsons of her acquaintance would have nothing but commination for Tom Horrocks 's head ; they would have demanded brusquely that all kneel and at least pay lip-service to their own self-righteousness ; but this man … |
| 6 | The word ‘ humanity ’ borrowed some of its force from the 1959 approach , but the rest of the definition would have taken us back to a test of manners based on an assumption of consensus which is at worst suspect and at best unproven , but which is to be measured only by outrage , surely an irrational and wholly subjective response . |
| 7 | We were playing marbles at you know and at and at this time of year , or whip and top and that sort of thing . |
| 8 | He gazed in unwilling fascination at the blazing , smoking plane , now directly abeam and at an altitude of under a thousand feet . |
| 9 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 10 | Also , the electric media ( by their nature , regardless of their commercial organization ) unify and at the same time decentralize the musical repertory and community , and make possible improvisatory musical styles . |
| 11 | For 1991 , it was decided to combine the support posts which had existed at the Data Archive and at Manchester in a single unit . |
| 12 | He scored the Orrell try and at all times his canny persistence had Wasps on the back foot . |
| 13 | Right , yeah so erm you know I mean that 's probably the best thing to do if you try and , try and at least keep up to date with the rest of this term and er you know not er make sure , even if you have n't been to a class at least you know what went , went on there from somebody |
| 14 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |