Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 2 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 3 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 4 | Why would we consider men fully paid-up perverts if they showed an unnatural interest in Crimplene blouses , but normal red blooded males if they ignite at the mere mention of silk teddies ? |
| 5 | So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework . |
| 6 | If they remained at the current 14 per cent rate , they would be £402m . |
| 7 | The demand curve for sterling will shift to the left and the supply curve will shift to the right until they intersect at the fixed rate of exchange . |
| 8 | There was a little wistfulness about these village girls when they looked at the rich convent girls in their expensive clothes . |
| 9 | Later , dozens of people were waiting to greet the couple when they arrived at the new £4m British Embassy building . |
| 10 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 11 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 12 | It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed . |
| 13 | When they meet at the final masking , the atmosphere is again one of ceremony and solemnity , and they speak verse to each other ( V.iv.72–83 ) . |
| 14 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 15 | So we er , schools can approach us as the Engineering Council and say , we 'd like some help , and quite obviously , they all want some help when they look at the actual syllabus of a design and technology itself ! |
| 16 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 17 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |
| 18 | I see ( and Summerchild sees ) the young provincial historian becoming even more silent and preoccupied than Summerchild himself as they look at the worn carpets and unoccupied chairs . |
| 19 | Then she and the president can set about hacking away as vigorously at the wasteful government machine as they have at the sheltered private sector . |