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

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1 the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh
2 The two boys were no older than six , their eyes wide and fearful as they stared at the gun hanging limply at her side .
3 The train journey lasted all day , and it was dark when they arrived at the station .
4 They 'll be lucky if they stop at the Horseshoe .
5 In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice .
6 The genital slits are edged with rounded papillae proximally which become more elongated and spine-like until they merge at the edge with the arm comb-spinelets .
7 It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed .
8 In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time .
9 Not too shattered when they arrived at the cottage to propose a round of Trivial Pursuit .
10 ‘ I 'm not smiling at that and I 'm not interested in what you thought , ’ she snapped , then fell silent until they arrived at the zoo .
11 ‘ All I wanted was a pain-killer but they said at the desk that there were none in the hotel .
12 Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland .
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