Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 2 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 3 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 4 | These signals may have been less predictive of the outcome because they occurred at higher frequencies at earlier stages in the conflicts . |
| 5 | The Webbs explain that their original definition , relating the trade unions ' function to conditions of employment , implied that trade unions had always contemplated a perpetual continuance of the capitalist or wage system , whereas they had at various dates during the past century at any rate frequently had aspirations towards a revolutionary change in social and economic conditions . |
| 6 | While they glared at each other he recalled that Carrie had said something similar earlier in the day . |
| 7 | In another incident they injured five Germans when they shot at another bus in the town of Qena . |
| 8 | When they arrived at Green Gables , Marilla came to the door to meet them . |
| 9 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 10 | He nodded and there followed an awkward silence where Julie and Nina must have become aware of the tension , for they glanced at each other at the same moment as a patient arrived in the centre . |
| 11 | ‘ Who was that man , Virginia ? ’ he persisted quietly , as they waited at more traffic lights . |
| 12 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 13 | There was silence as they glanced at each other , and Sophie said irritably , ‘ It 's exactly as I said . |
| 14 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 15 | A wave passed , so high that its spray burst against a side porthole as they stared at each other . |
| 16 | As they stared at each other everything seemed fine , the differences did not matter , all that mattered was the love they shared . |
| 17 | There was silence as they looked at each other across the table . |
| 18 | Beside him Carol watched the modern-day gladiators as they came at each other . |
| 19 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 20 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 21 | She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment . |