Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 2 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 3 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 4 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 5 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 6 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 7 | When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base . |
| 8 | And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire . |
| 9 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 10 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 11 | When they sat down at the kitchen table , Emily perched on the edge of her chair , and her hands were never still . |
| 12 | ‘ I see , ’ said Doyle softly as they came out at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 13 | John Shaw , a geographer from Queen 's University , Ontario , argued in a recent issue of the US journal Geology , that enormous volumes of glacial meltwater must have burst forth from the Canadian ice sheets in cataclysmic floods as they broke up at the end of the Ice Age . |
| 14 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 15 | ‘ Right , constable , you can report in now , ’ Bragg said , as they pulled up at the end of Bartholomew Close . |
| 16 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |