Example sentences of "[vb pp] their [noun pl] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the century , use of drugs in cases of terminal illness was more common ; but many would have shaken their heads at the thought of patients dying drugged , as is the norm today . |
| 2 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 3 | Imagine that firms have set their prices at the end of period 0 to give a price level of P in periods 1 and 2 . |
| 4 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |
| 5 | Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart . |
| 6 | Haiti 's military rulers have thumbed their noses at the U S. The murders of pro-Aristide politicians , a deliberate attempt to sabotage the return to democracy . |
| 7 | But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads . |
| 8 | Sixty people have already lost their jobs at the Norfolk Smokehouses food processing plant . |
| 9 | In the past year a hundred and fifty people have lost their jobs at the Newport Pagnell site . |
| 10 | Central also have a close involvement with Aberdeen Royal Hospitals — NHS Trust who have maintained their accounts at the Branch since April 1992 . |
| 11 | Some writers have kept their analyses at the level of specific situations . |
| 12 | The Cliffords had forfeited their estates at the beginning of the reign for their adherence to Lancaster . |
| 13 | The Cliffords had forfeited their estates at the beginning of the reign for their adherence to Lancaster . |