Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun pl] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 2 | The launderers were at their evening meal — I could see their backs at the windows . |
| 3 | They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle , pointing their guns at the passengers . |
| 4 | There are already two vacancies on the Glenavon board with the former chairman and long-serving George Fleming losing their seats at the shareholders AGM last week . |
| 5 | But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads . |
| 6 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 7 | Two men in their late teens or early twenties came into the office and pointed their guns at the cashiers face . |