Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surrounding himself with local knowledge was a form of entrenchment ; if you dig in and stare at a hill you can often persuade yourself you know what 's going on behind it . |
| 2 | We used to walk in and stand at the foot of one of the giant cranes . |
| 3 | The system may look very good in theory , but does anyone actually come in and look at the tapes ? |
| 4 | she said do you wan na come in and look at the kitchen now and I said no I wo n't stop now I 'll work |
| 5 | A woman walked in and sat at the middle of the counter — Maxim had chosen the furthest end . |
| 6 | I was in charge of weekly wages and organized shifts and hours , as well as keeping a check on the quantities of tomatoes brought in and weighed at the entrance of the factory . |
| 7 | If you actually go in and look at the prices cos the other is the only one I 'm gon na get , it was only ten pounds , only one at the bottom and this shirt white shirt is only five pounds . |
| 8 | These factors explain the smiles on the faces of Mike Belbin And David Eyre , who jointly lease , run , live in and cook at the Eagle pub in Farringdon Road . |
| 9 | She hoisted the baby on to her hip and dragging a chair close up to the television set , sat down and stared at the blank screen . |
| 10 | He sat down and stared at the gifts quite speechless . |
| 11 | She knelt down and stared at the smaller words below it . |
| 12 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 13 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 14 | Now he knelt down and looked at the dead girl curiously . |
| 15 | Remembering a detail with sudden clarity , Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper . |
| 16 | Dickinson sat down and looked at the adjutant , appalled . |
| 17 | Now , you 've all been down and looked at the state of the playground below . |
| 18 | Colonel with a K the this band , they used to , that they had from the tenth replacement depot used to come down and play at the Town Hall , and they they like I said before they were fellas on the way to join Glen the absolute ultimate musicians of America and it was why I 'm still today erm I 've got a big collection of jazz records and have always been interested in the big band sound . |
| 19 | He lunched at a pub on the way down and arrived at the Incident Room shortly before two . |
| 20 | The conductor would then leap down and tug at the wire on top of the cabinet . |
| 21 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 22 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 23 | ‘ Would you like to go down and look at the inscriptions on the slabs ? ’ |
| 24 | I flew down and looked at the computer screens to see what was written on them , and they all said in huge letters … |
| 25 | He sat down and pushed at the lid with one filthy paw . |
| 26 | And the three lorries could back underneath and load and go down and tip at the Golden Wharf at Lyness . |
| 27 | One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar , but he turned out to be the roadie . |
| 28 | But Moose have got steadily better as they 've gone along and arrived at a winsome pop style not a million miles from Lloyd Cole . |
| 29 | He turned over and stared at the sky . |
| 30 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |