Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 2 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 3 | They include a party of German businessmen , keen to try their hand at the traditional Highland Games sports of shot-putting and caber-tossing , and a group of Australians . |
| 4 | The band were forced to cancel their appearance at the recent MTV awards ceremony due to Gallup 's ill health . |
| 5 | Cuts in the defence industry have already seen more than three thousand people lose their jobs at the Dowty Group and Smiths Industries in Gloucestershire over the alst three years . |
| 6 | Bernice and Defries were lying on the floor , edging backwards while firing their blasters at the black-robed androids . |
| 7 | Two more of the creatures hovered around the craft , walking over the wings and flashing their teeth at the hysterical passengers . |
| 8 | But shareholders can still make their investment work for them — by filling their trolleys at the right superstores this weekend . |
| 9 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 10 | The women of the other crofts were already at the burn , filling their pails at the freezing cold stream . |
| 11 | Current models of collaborative research assume that companies pool their resources at the pre-competitive R&D phase and the apply results individually in a competitive environment . |
| 12 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 13 | The leader of the council , Robert Gould , said later he accepted that the 1.5 per cent pay increase was totally unrealistic , but said the unions should be directing their anger at the Conservative Government , which was to blame for the situation . |
| 14 | British officials hid their anger at the new ‘ snub ’ . |
| 15 | The American embassy in Beijing is said to have received envelopes containing a few yuan as contributions from ordinary Chinese to the war effort ; and young would-be volunteer fighters have offered their services at the Kuwaiti and Saudi embassies . |
| 16 | At a rally in London , they expressed their anger at the proposed changes in the way they work . |
| 17 | In addition to developing his own tricks and illusions , Maskelyne was important as an impresario , booking guest performers to appear in his show , and many successful magicians began their careers at the Egyptian Hall : one who never performed there was Houdini , who wrote asking for an engagement in 1898 , before he became famous , and was refused . |
| 18 | Holding their shotguns at the ready , they threaded their way cautiously through the closely packed trees following the thin beams of their torches . |
| 19 | Unipork AC , Cookstown enjoyed their day at the Straid Fishery with Sam Newell taking seven trout and Tom Taylor six . |
| 20 | He can turn his head away from the screams , the pleas , the heart-rending shouts that split the night air — suffering human beings screeching their injustice at the outside world . |
| 21 | At that time , sons of the nobility often started their education at the local school alongside boys whose parents were lower on the social scale and David attended Irvine Grammar School . |
| 22 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 23 | A group of derelicts seated in the trash-strewn gutter amiably waved their bottles at the passing parade . |
| 24 | Yesterday , when the Government were defending their postition at the United Nations in Geneva on interrogation procedures and denying that anything untoward was happening , settlements were being awarded in Belfast courts to people who had claimed that they had been assaulted in just those circumstances . |
| 25 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 26 | How the more distinguished men must have gnashed their teeth at the trivial basis upon which great decisions are made — but how delighted they must be today not to be branded with the title of court architect ! |
| 27 | To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level . |
| 28 | Firstly , Mr Marnell states that 105 men won their appeal at the Industrial Tribunal , when , in fact , it was 100 men . |
| 29 | Ekelund and Tollison ( 1986 ) and Lewin ( 1988 ) note that the Austrian school ( associated in particular with Hayek ) see the macro consequences as being the result of microeconomic-motivated actions and some macro actions finding their impact at the micro level ; for example , industrial , regional and other policies often adopt subsidies to maintain an output and employment target ( see chapter 5 ) in a particular industry . |
| 30 | The need for change was felt strongly , so builders cast their eyes at the ready-made style in neighbouring France and based their ideas of Gothic upon French schemes , especially Amiens Cathedral which , at that time , was the exemplar in western European architecture . |