Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court dismissed their appeal at first instance but they appealed ( see MS Fashions Ltd and Others v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [ 1992 ] , The Times , 23 June ) . |
| 2 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |
| 3 | Both the Prime Minister and the Home Office minister , John Patten , tried their hands at epigrammatic contributions to the message being broadcast . |
| 4 | Since the noises in the House of Commons in 1927 and 1928 , the bishops sanctioned or winked their eyes at various modifications which were sensible and did not mind that they were illegal . |
| 5 | The French shared their reluctance at this time to sink their identities in a United States of Europe . |
| 6 | Not all Jewish merchants in Tangier would made their fortune at any price , however . |
| 7 | ( The Portuguese had removed the prohibition on the import of English woollen goods , under the terms of the Methuen Treaty of 1703 , only on condition that England admitted their wines at preferential rates . ) |
| 8 | The BRC squad includes Rodney Wilson and David Webb who both learnt their rowing at Methodist College and continued at Queen 's before moving up to BRC . |
| 9 | No , the fans were only being impatient with three false starts and directed their anger at 30-year-old Johnson for causing the final one . |
| 10 | Black figures stirred and poked their heads at each other like rooks in a rookery . |
| 11 | The schools dominated in the loose and the youth side showed their inexperience at this type of play . |
| 12 | As the brand-new warship entered the narrows outside Oslo , the ancient but sturdy cannon of the coastal artillery , ironically of the finest Krupp workmanship , disgorged their projectiles at optimum range . |
| 13 | When European trees were taken to the tropics to grace the residences of nineteenth-century colonists , they continued to grow and shed their leaves at regular intervals . |
| 14 | Many professional people , such as judges and teachers , commenced their duties at stated hours , and by the late Middle Ages even the often unruly undergraduates at universities such as Oxford were subjected to the discipline of fixed timetables . |
| 15 | The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room . |
| 16 | They were promoted by local landowners and farmers or industrial and commercial interests and even by the clergy , and their active promoters in groups of around a dozen ran their affairs at monthly meetings , employed the paid surveyors and labourers and contracted for repairs . |