Example sentences of "[vb base] their [noun pl] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They flash their eyes at each other so much you 'd think they were rehearsing a scene from Carmen .
2 SIR — In my experience and that of others , many women in societies with very high birth rates would like to start reproducing later , stop earlier and space their births at wider intervals .
3 Churchill 's Black Dog may be marred by cut-price literary criticism , and its construction may be slapdash , but its armature is a belief that people can , by an act of creative will , save their souls at any stage , that fundamental personal change is possible after 40 , 50 , even 60 .
4 People acquire their homes at different times and in different circumstances .
5 This illustrates the importance of providing investors with products that meet their requirements at low costs .
6 The Passport Agency is using advertisements to suggest that people renew their passports at other times of the year .
7 This does not preclude the possibility that genes are normally transcribed at or shortly after the time of induction but exert their effects at later times .
8 As sailing boats bob beside the quay , visitors take their places at open-air cafés set out beneath the shade of cool chestnut trees .
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