Example sentences of "they [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 2 | They announced at Paris their intention to extend the range from 35ft ( 10.7m ) to 52ft ( 15.9m ) . |
| 3 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 4 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 5 | When they met at Newbury on November 25th , Nomadic Way finished 10 lengths behind his rival , and now , on only 1lb better , Nomadic Way improved about ten lengths . |
| 6 | When they met at parties Nigel continued to keep up a surface friendship . |
| 7 | She was n't in the mood to cope with Kegan 's heavy playfulness , the sort of labored gallantry he produced whenever they met at official hospital functions . |
| 8 | They 've been together for fourteen years , they met at school . |
| 9 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 10 | They met at York . |
| 11 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |
| 12 | They met at Cornell University , where she was a social work student and he was in the agricultural department . |
| 13 | They met at Offham Hill , now the boundary of Lewes old racecourse , on 14 May 1264 . |
| 14 | They met at flats around London , avoiding Diana 's apartments at Kensington Palace or the lawyers ' offices in Gray 's Inn . |
| 15 | George Wing had been with Hay ever since they met at 1660 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit . |
| 16 | They met at a dance . |
| 17 | They met at Cambridge when she — ‘ a lovely young woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes ’ — went to interview him for the university newspaper . |
| 18 | Helena Lisandrello says she had an affair with the actor after they met at a party in 1979 . |
| 19 | Simon stepped in after they met at Barcelona . |
| 20 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 21 | Founded in 1764 , the Club was not ( as is often assumed ) Johnson 's brain-child : Boswell 's Life makes it clear that the idea came from Joshua Reynolds ; and once a week they met at seven in the evening , in the Turk 's Head , a Soho hostelry . |
| 22 | That night , Sunday , Mr Grant , the well-bred reverend gentleman they met at Cawdor manse , joined them , and Mr Keith the excise man , and they ate roasted kid ‘ which Dr Johnson had never tasted before . |
| 23 | They met at stage school 13 years ago and it was love at first sight . |
| 24 | They met at his flat . |
| 25 | Liverpool boss Graeme Souness shows off his heart-operation scar to his old Scotland team-mate Gordon Strachan when they met at Wembley on Charity Shield day . |
| 26 | They met at university and have kept in touch ever since . |
| 27 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 28 | They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city . |
| 29 | The problem of the transfer of loyalty by members of the aristocracy from one Merovingian to another attracted the attention of Guntram and Childebert shortly after Rauching 's death , when they met at Andelot . |
| 30 | When they met at work Rachel remained so cool with him that by the end of the week it was as if the little interlude in the pool and the club had never happened . |