Example sentences of "[vb past] them at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
2 My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford .
3 And he h He sold them at a profit of thirty three and a third percent which is a third .
4 ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor .
5 She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ .
6 Luib took the practice sword from him with a nod , and he joined them at the edge of the field .
7 At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there .
8 ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 .
9 After the final collection of the night , when all the toads had been recorded and marked , we released them at the margin of the lake near the spawn site .
10 ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said .
11 They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back .
12 When they returned , thousands awaited them at the airport with Yamamoto to the fore .
13 He was still writing verses but , according to Hooton 's notes , he abandoned them at the end of this year under the influence of Pater .
14 Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home .
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