Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racing cyclists generally like to meet their fans at the beginning of a stage , but do n't ask for autographs today . |
| 2 | In addition , the GEMMs , IDBs and SEMBs report their positions at the close of each day to the Bank of England , which analyses them and provides a risk assessment by the next day , although the Bank also takes other broad factors into consideration for its supervisory functions . |
| 3 | And they started keeping their clothes at the pit . |
| 4 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 5 | It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society . |
| 6 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 7 | Harper had been right , they had merely been changing their aim , and now the French gunners concentrated their shots at the centre of the field . |
| 8 | The discount houses would then be obliged to pay whatever level of interest was required to prevent banks ' demanding money at call , i.e. that rate of interest on call money which persuaded banks not to use this route to increase their balances at the Bank but to forgo instead their intention of increased lending . |
| 9 | De Candolle realized that all species have the potential to increase their numbers at the expense of rivals occupying the same territory . |
| 10 | Hand-loom weaving has always been considered a male artisan activity , with the concession that wives from time to time might assist their husbands at the cottage loom . |
| 11 | The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass . |
| 12 | Why is there a shortage of money for our teams and travelling coaches , or is it simply that the LTA 's overpaid employees are anxious to preserve their lifestyles at the expense of British tennis ? |
| 13 | By the end of the century , use of drugs in cases of terminal illness was more common ; but many would have shaken their heads at the thought of patients dying drugged , as is the norm today . |
| 14 | I had to repeat things again and again , hoping that something would sink in , but I was rewarded for my efforts with the satisfaction of knowing that they all passed their examinations at the end of the year . |
| 15 | In 1272 Kilwardby , in 1399 Salmon of Norwich , and in 1303 Gainsborough of Worcester were all required to take an oath to receive their lands at the king 's pleasure and not by papal grant , an oath which was thereafter usual whenever a bishop obtained his see by provision . |
| 16 | It should be understood , however , that in consequence of the constitutional position of the Crown , the Crown has the right to change its employees ' conditions of service at any time , and that they hold their appointments at the pleasure of the Crown . |
| 17 | Scientists — many of them , like the physicists Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi , refugees from Fascism — put their skills at the disposal of the government . |
| 18 | The film 's main assets are Croft and Tiernan , both young enough to ignore the weight of Shakespeare 's name and get on with acting — they put their words at the service of fresh emotions , not the other way round . |
| 19 | The team 's ball-item ( ‘ Sugar and Spice ’ ) would be the one in which they had to deposit their balls at the back of the stage , jump , turn and move downstage . |
| 20 | Many directed their comments at the Indemnity as well at the Compensation Fund . |
| 21 | Pupils who do not manage to buy their books at the School Book Sales should place their order with the booksellers before the end of the Session . |
| 22 | The women meet their neighbours at the pawnshop and adjourn to the public house for a glass and a gossip ’ . |
| 23 | A lucky few will then be chosen to play their versions at the town hall concert when the full LSO , conducted by Richard McNicol , will play the original . |
| 24 | So this morning , Jones and Co can again thumb their noses at the elite ( if they can find it through the hangover haze ) thanks to Lawrie Sanchez 's 80th-minute strike . |
| 25 | Rosemary Sandford of Darlington Association on Disability , said they were saddened and disappointed they were not given the opportunity to express their views at the meeting . |
| 26 | Goats will even toss their horns at the shadow of an eagle flying overhead , and will chase eagles off ledges . |
| 27 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 28 | The gospel touched their lives at the point of loneliness , so the church opened a day care centre providing a lounge with comfortable chairs and a hot meal as an alternative to depending on the local authority ‘ meals on wheels ’ . |
| 29 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 30 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |