Example sentences of "and [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 2 | " I would like to invite you to come and stay at my house , " he said . |
| 3 | Will you come and stay at Nana 's house , Chrissy ? |
| 4 | The hostel also became a focal point for refugees to gather and socialise at weekends . |
| 5 | She still woke often in the night full of strange forebodings , but with the Reverend Baron to confide in and laugh at her wilder interpretations of what she had dreamed , she survived better . |
| 6 | She scoured the streets in the poorer areas looking for likely candidates and then , knowing the reality of poverty , taught them the rules of hygiene in her own way , which the Girls would imitate and laugh at behind her back . |
| 7 | They 'd stand there and laugh at you , or say things to get you going , and when they felt they 'd wound you up they 'd walk away laughing . |
| 8 | According to his pupil , Norman Swindin [ q.v. ] , he was inclined to be irascible at times but had a dry sense of humour and the ability to recognize and laugh at his own mistakes . |
| 9 | Just as " every clerk 's " unanimity of opinion directs the laughter of " " every wight " " at the end of the Miller 's Tale ( 3847 – 9 ) , the text of the Reeve 's Tale brings its readers to view and laugh at the miller and his family through the clerks ' perceptions , their attitudes and their frame of reference : We may particularly note , for instance , how the incongruous " " par compaignye " " that Nicholas and Alison put in the mouth of the unfortunate John recurs in this urbane rendering of the family 's vulgar cacophany , and how the somewhat different " " melodye " " recalls the " " revel " " and the " " melodye " " that Alison and Nicholas enjoy . |
| 10 | The implicit assumption is that investors can borrow and lend at the riskless rate of interest . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
| 12 | widen participation in higher education and to teach and research at the highest level ; in so doing to continue to innovate within Scottish and British Higher Education ; |
| 13 | We have a mission to widen access to higher education and to teach and research at the highest possible level . |
| 14 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 15 | Extra glands had been grafted into her to store and synthesize at speed the somatotrophin growth hormone that ordinarily promoted growth of long bones and protein synthesis in a child … and glands to reverse the process . |
| 16 | Fear of the owl makes the birds want to flee and anger at its obtrusive presence makes them want to attack . |
| 17 | Yeah , twenty five says when once the householder has got up and locked the door and you start to stand outside and knock at the door saying sir open to us , but in answer he will say to you , I do not know where you are from , then you will start saying we ate and drank in front of you and we 've taught in our broad ways , but he will speak and say to you , I do not know where you are from , get away from me you are workers of unrighteousness |
| 18 | Ask him if he wants to come and knock at my door . |
| 19 | Perhaps we three could go and eat at the Cross Keys in Chelsea . ’ |
| 20 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 21 | She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams . |
| 22 | ‘ Besides , ’ Becky adds , ‘ if we waited until we got to Bournemouth , Molly would be insulted if we did n't go and eat at her hotel . |
| 23 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
| 24 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 25 | The shortest priced favourite can stumble and fall at the very first fence while the 100–1 outsider can achieve the ultimate glory . |
| 26 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
| 27 | ‘ Will I give ye a jail crop , son ? ’ he usually said , and he would grin and wink at my Ma . |
| 28 | The mob , now several hundred strong , and going at it hammer and tongs , took time out to boo and jeer at the military presence . |
| 29 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |
| 30 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |