Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] them at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 2 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 3 | There was nothing , and suddenly there was everything : solid , sodden fields slightly canted over , and three , four German aircraft flying across them at fifteen hundred feet . |
| 4 | Rock-climbers make sure they have lots of metal implements swinging from them at all times . |
| 5 | Their role is to deal with routine business delegated to them at weekly or monthly meetings ; |
| 6 | Barn owls have one ear slightly higher than the other , so sound comes to them at two different pitches . |
| 7 | Hitch , Morton and McCann stood over the other three men while they transferred the precious cargo , guns trained on them at all times . |
| 8 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 9 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |