Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] them at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 2 | The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’ |
| 3 | Recognition was a blow , though by no means a fatal one , to the UNITA rebels , who have been fighting government soldiers since January , having lost to them at the election in September . |
| 4 | Three of these were his fellow truckers from the night Jim Miller had stumbled into them at the gas station . |
| 5 | Though the Swan was more sophisticated than the Queen 's Head , it was only a matter of minutes before servants , ostlers and maids were scampering all over the large and comfortable hotel to see to the minutest needs of the ‘ Honourable Member of Parliament ’ , ‘ brother to an Earl ’ , who had landed on them at an unexpectedly late hour and naturally — ‘ a Colonel as well ’ — demanded the best of everything both for himself and for his ( temporary — ‘ from Keswick ’ ) servant and his ( ‘ pale-looking ’ ) daughter . |
| 6 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |