Example sentences of "[vb past] their [noun pl] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Prime Minister and the Home Office minister , John Patten , tried their hands at epigrammatic contributions to the message being broadcast . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 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 . ) |
| 4 | Black figures stirred and poked their heads at each other like rooks in a rookery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first mate and the ship 's engineer took their meals at different times , and did not use the saloon as a sitting-room . |
| 9 | 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 . |