Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun sg] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silas and Matt then set up the barbecue , and Lucy was able to open the two food hampers , her eyes widening at the variety they contained . |
| 2 | Look at the way they treated people years ago . |
| 3 | If you look at the way they report they remember what their family environment was like , what their home environment was like as as kids erm you find that they generally have much less positive recollections than people who were n't abused as children . |
| 4 | look at the money they make , golfers . |
| 5 | But you look at the diagram they 've given you which is not exactly the scale and they do this quite a bit . |
| 6 | Look at the flap they 've created — children being evacuated , all neatly labelled and toting Mickey Mouse gasmasks , sandbags blocking the streets … ‘ |
| 7 | Look at the gate they get . |
| 8 | Look at the beast they 've got over there on that table . |
| 9 | But they are n't normal , are they , I mean , you look at N M E and you look at the language they use , I mean , that 's not normal . |
| 10 | Well I think it means , in the sense , if you look at the example they 've given here . |
| 11 | and they keep their reading books from the li their library going at the pace they want to go at |
| 12 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 13 | When a patrol of the Second Field Regiment , the Royal Artillery , arrived at the scene they found nothing . |
| 14 | With this sort of hierarchical team , the possibility of idiosyncratic judgements is minimized , and with the control of the recording in the supervisors ' hands , errors are more readily noted at the time they occur and can be corrected or allowed for in the subsequent analysis . |
| 15 | If our jobless levels keep rising at the rate they have since the general election , then the north-east of Scotland may start to feel like the north-east of England . |
| 16 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 17 | Thorndyke took pictures of what the cats were doing at the time they escaped . |
| 18 | When they arrive at the centre they start the day with tea/toast and a chat . |
| 19 | One of the main elements which matters to customers is that stock should be available to them when they order it , that it should be delivered at the time they request it and that it should be assembled correctly . |
| 20 | I mean at the moment they 've got it short , but they have it long here and long at the back and then everywhere else short , short back and sides |
| 21 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 22 | Wendy , who is also a keep fit specialist , is overwhelmed by her new pupils ' enthusiasm and thrilled at the progress they have made in a short time . |
| 23 | However little time I spend at the front they do n't come in and get on with something , they come in and wait for me . |
| 24 | In using the former , however , it is sometimes difficult to explain how things are actually working at the moment they occur rather than understanding what we see in retrospect after some factor such as clouding of memory or change of opinion may have occurred . |
| 25 | Given that Finn 's Hotel is where the author 's adored Nora Barnacle was working at the time they met , will it be a love story ? |