Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Glenn Close 's stubborn and pain-ridden performance as Sunny makes you sad for her and hate her at the same time . |
| 2 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 3 | It is possible to make a single , and sell it at your own gigs , for quite a small sum of money ( see Chapter 13 , ‘ Doing it the Right Way ’ by Horace Trubridge ) . |
| 4 | Where a book might originally sell at £15 , Smith might buy it for £1.50 and sell it at £5.50 — a profit was turned , and the public benefited . |
| 5 | No they would buy it somewhere and sell it at a profit you see . |
| 6 | As the New Right has denounced and undermined a communitarian form of society , so ‘ The numbers of people for whom such communitarian visions are good and mean something at the level of their everyday experiences are declining , attenuating their moral force . ’ |
| 7 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
| 8 | Come in the front way and make yourselves at home . |
| 9 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
| 10 | They float right through the glass and make themselves at home . |
| 11 | Martha , the nurse on duty , proved to be a real dog-lover and insisted that Zephyr could go of her lead and make herself at home . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Celia had intended to get a sandwich and eat it at her desk . |
| 16 | Here you are trying to have your cake and eat it at the same time … |
| 17 | Males have brightly striped fringes and flash them at each other when displaying during combat . |
| 18 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 19 | There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night . |
| 20 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 21 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 22 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 23 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 24 | May I suggest that the government abolish forthwith the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , and replace it at once by a Foundation for Gardeners , Handymen , Babysitters and the Arts . |
| 25 | which is burnt off when the whole thing gets fired in the kiln , so what will have to happen is the , your pots you 've done so far , once they 're thoroughly dried and go into the kiln , they 're fired at a high temperature and then they 'll come out this bit fired you 'll then separate them with oxide pastes , dip them into glaze , which I 'll explain in a minute , and re-fire them at a higher temperature , the glazed would |
| 26 | Saw him at a sale being knocked down to a known horsemeat dealer and stepped in and outbid him at the last moment . |
| 27 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 28 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 29 | He nodded with patronising approval , and she had to do battle with an urge to pick up the nearest heavy object and hurl it at his infuriating head . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd like to have hundreds and hundreds of dogs one day and show them at Crufts . ’ |