Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 2 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 3 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 4 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 5 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 6 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
| 7 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 8 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 9 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 10 | If they remained at the current 14 per cent rate , they would be £402m . |
| 11 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 12 | Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting . |
| 13 | There was a little wistfulness about these village girls when they looked at the rich convent girls in their expensive clothes . |
| 14 | Some submissions were to clear the initial hurdles relatively quickly , even when they fell at the first one . |
| 15 | Later , dozens of people were waiting to greet the couple when they arrived at the new £4m British Embassy building . |
| 16 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 17 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 18 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 19 | It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed . |
| 20 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm afraid stocks are still pathetically low , ’ Louise said as they looked at the half dozen dresses that were the only ones the assistant had in Constance 's size . |
| 22 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 23 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 24 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 25 | They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons . |