Example sentences of "[vb past] they [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was the passage from the fifteenth chapter of Genesis in which Abraham cut up a heifer , a goat and a ram and laid them out at the Lord 's command , driving the vultures away , falling at last into a deep sleep with ‘ a horror of great darkness ’ . |
| 2 | In one lightning movement the two fishermen picked up two pails of stinking fish heads and flung them lovingly at the Lionisers ' feet . |
| 3 | Tenerife was basking in afternoon sunshine as a taxi dropped them off at the sea-front . |
| 4 | Handed them out at the Police Station ! |
| 5 | The Repo Men armed their holy water-pistols and angled them down at the devil-made-flesh . |
| 6 | We saw them off at the airfield , we being Sogono and myself . |
| 7 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson has renewed his optimism about winning the championship following his team 's 3–0 win over Chelsea , which planted them back at the top , a point ahead of Manchester United who have two games in hand . |
| 8 | Cottee finished off the first of a series of classic Everton moves to grab the equaliser before John Ebbrell put them ahead at the break . |
| 9 | Shelley put ten long fingers to his chest and then flipped them up at the ceiling . |
| 10 | Or else you sort of jotted them down at the back of your mind , you know , to think about them later , but you never remembered , or you did but it was too late , they 'd gone , your head was full of other things . ’ |
| 11 | She has found his hands for him , and fitted them freshly at the wrists |
| 12 | An armed soldier , a member of the Taman guard , flagged them down at the barrier . |