Example sentences of "[vb past] they at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 2 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
| 3 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 4 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
| 7 | Robin Gurdon , who met them at army headquarters , was to guide the party through the southernmost part of the British lines as they hoped that by skirting the edge of the depression , they would avoid any main concentrations of German troops . |
| 8 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 9 | He then startled champions-elect Everton with an early goal when we met them at their Goodison Park headquarters a week later ( 1–2 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 11 | One met them at every turn asking plaintively , ‘ Has edyone god edy andihysterbine tableds ? ’ |
| 12 | Superior forces led by the Earl of Morton met them at Carberry Hill near the earlier battlefield of Pinkie . |
| 13 | We met them at Carberry Hill . |
| 14 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 15 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 16 | I first met them at a trial . |
| 17 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 18 | The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him . |
| 19 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 20 | The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense . |
| 21 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 22 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 23 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
| 24 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 25 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
| 26 | Sir Stafford Cripps in 1950 pegged them at £410 million . |
| 27 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 30 | 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 . |