Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 2 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 3 | Battle-weary after the 4 hour 42 minute match , which had finished , it was little wonder that the two of them embraced at the net as 15,000 rose as one to acclaim such magnificent entertainment . |
| 4 | Both of them smiled at the device . |
| 5 | In fairness none of them appeared at the Berlin show that began only two days after Paris , a show signalling a new frontier for the German manufacturers , who may just , in 10 years ' time , give the French as much to think about as the Japanese do . |
| 6 | ‘ Virtually all of them jumped at the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the scheme . ’ |
| 7 | All four cameras scheduled for use in this episode are positioned on their ‘ A ’ positions , three of them aimed at the set on which the first scene will be acted out . |
| 8 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |