Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] were [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thought I was really funny , but when my particulars were taken at the end of the week , I was again brought across the counter to sign other folk on . |
| 2 | Their sons were educated at the school at one fifth of the fees normally charged , under a concessionary scheme . |
| 3 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 4 | She became an accomplished pianist and several of her pictures were exhibited at the Royal Academy . |
| 5 | Her legs were crossed at the knee , and she was wearing her new wedge-heeled shoes . |
| 6 | Rachel 's opportunity to speak to her parents came on Saturday morning after the community nurse had arrived and was tending to Jennifer in her room and she and her parents were sitting at the kitchen table . |
| 7 | Their reservations were voiced at the long-running Sizewell public inquiry , where the Suffolk local authorities have just finished their evidence . |
| 8 | Eventually she was appointed as the Mission 's Scottish Deputation Secretary where the full range of her gifts were put at the disposal of the churches . |
| 9 | Her eyes were wild and did not seem to see him , her wings were smashing at the bars and branch in her cage , and she was over and up to the top . |
| 10 | Tim noticed that they looked shabby , their clothes were worn at the edges , the collars dull and frayed . |
| 11 | After weeks of private anguish followed by questionable closed-door lobbying of the leading minds of the Royal College of Science , Darwin found himself forced to go public on the issue of evolution for the first time , when both their papers were read at the Linnean Society of London on that momentous July evening of 1858 . |
| 12 | Their daughters were connected at the chest , abdomen , pelvis and along one pair of arms . |
| 13 | Where necessary , new bridges , such as the Pont Saint-Michel , were built to cross the Seine , whose quays were developed at the same time as arteries for traffic . |
| 14 | There were men out there , workmen driving animals and carrying torches whose beams were aimed at the ground . |
| 15 | Many of those who have been chosen in place of the knights are Essex Men , but Essex Men with degrees : clever chaps like John Wittingdale and Oliver Letwin , whose cloaks were laid at the feet of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 16 | The leader of the three was still shouting , but now his curses were directed at the woman who was confronting him . |
| 17 | But yesterday Mr Fallon said his comments were aimed at the local education authority and not the schools themselves . |
| 18 | His fists were clenched at the seams of his trousers . |
| 19 | ‘ I got my chemistry degree and like everybody else I applied for whatever jobs were going at the time . |