Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] they at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternately , the Commissioner and his most senior colleagues invite them to Scotland Yard , or visit them at the ALA building nearby . |
| 2 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 3 | 65 ) that the historian 's duty is ‘ to rejudge the conduct of men , that generous actions may be snatched from oblivion , and that the author of pernicious counsels , and the perpetrator of evil deeds may see , beforehand , the infamy that awaits them at the tribunal of posterity ’ . |
| 4 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 5 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 6 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
| 7 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
| 8 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
| 9 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
| 10 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 11 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 12 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 13 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
| 14 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
| 15 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 16 | No no the first mail run we had was just merely from to Rousay to collect the Rousay mails and dump them at the Rousay pier and they were sorted in Rousay for Egilsay and Wyre besides that . |
| 17 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
| 18 | In its case , however , the eye-spots are on the front wings and are exposed by suddenly spreading the folded wings and directing them at the attacker . |
| 19 | ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’ |
| 20 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |
| 21 | We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society . |
| 22 | Our business is to ensure that what we are doing now is done properly , not to take on board new activities and try and finance them at the expense of groups which are already suffering very poor , or at least inadequate services . |
| 23 | and nobble them at the start of the conference . |
| 24 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
| 25 | Finally , in contrast to the previous characteristics , there are modifications which seem to have a more didactic function : corrections , display questions and a tendency on the part of the adult to initiate a high proportion of topics , and to pursue them at the expense of the topics that the child might wish to introduce . |
| 26 | Elspeth is prepared ( her schedule permitting ) to drop guests at the start and collect them at the end of walks . |
| 27 | The record at the LEA level is , as we have seen earlier , not a promising one , since LEAs have been much more effective at producing curriculum policies than at monitoring and implementing them at the school level . |
| 28 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 29 | I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one . |
| 30 | ‘ What are you going to do instead ? ’ asks Phil , chewing up little pieces of graph paper into sodden balls , and flicking them at the laboratory ceiling with a slide-rule to try and make them stick . |