Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 or they turn up at the gates and go shit Mr like the headmaster 's on the door and my nipples are in and they go hang on I 've got some ice cubes here , put them on and they come out and er they go by the nipples , your nipples are looking good today .
2 Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top .
3 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 .
4 It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ .
5 In fact , all our theories of science are formulated on the assumption that space-time is smooth and nearly flat , so they break down at the big bang singularity , where the curvature of space-time is infinite .
6 Maggie 's eyes are long and wide like certain nuts , and they turn up at the ends like maidens from Disney .
7 And they got out at the very top . ’
8 at the back like their bob 's there and they go up at the back .
9 If somebody if they turn up at the normal time , I assume when though there 's you know we could leave a not a not a notice and they could just go out .
10 BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates .
11 ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . )
12 Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground .
13 The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church .
14 It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first .
15 When they turn up at the office next day looking as if they 've missed out on their sleep , however , they could get more than teasing comments from their colleagues .
16 Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes .
17 When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base .
18 And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire .
19 When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night .
20 Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier .
21 When they sat down at the kitchen table , Emily perched on the edge of her chair , and her hands were never still .
22 ‘ I see , ’ said Doyle softly as they came out at the bottom of the stairs .
23 John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age .
24 He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water .
25 ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close .
26 More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast .
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