Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly three years after the murder , Mr and Mrs Macaulay still share the same sense of outrage and defiance against the IRA which they felt at the time of the killings . |
| 2 | There are many cases recorded in which Christian subjects petitioned the sultan to redress grievances which they suffered at the hands of overbearing church leaders , and where the sultan acted in the interests of the petitioners . |
| 3 | The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages . |
| 4 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 5 | As Jelka watched , the men subdued her , forcing her into a padded jacket , the over-long arms of which they fastened at the back . |
| 6 | The plaintiffs owned property in Egypt which they lost at the time of the Suez crisis in 1956 . |
| 7 | They had muddy boots which they kicked against the kitchen step , and muddy hands which they washed at the sink . |
| 8 | Retired teacher Geri Hazelby , and his wife Rowena , showed the champion Charollaisa ewe lamb , bred by near neighbour and former Welsh Agricultural College principal Dr Dai Davies which they bought at the society 's Banbury show and sale . |
| 9 | They threw everything they had at the Swindon goal , but Hammond stopped the lot . |
| 10 | Yeah they they groaned at the ones we 'd come up with but when it came to making their own up |
| 11 | What they saw at the end fundamentally shocked his system . |
| 12 | It is much more difficult to establish precisely when damage occurred , who was responsible and what they intended at the time . |
| 13 | I 've no idea about that what they did at the grave ? |