Example sentences of "and [verb] they at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
2 | The main duty of the foresters of fee was of course the safe keeping of vert and venison : the Forest rolls show them searching for , arresting and attaching offenders , and indicting them at the Forest Eyre . |
3 | They can decide which pathways to follow and explore them at the time they ‘ read ’ the document . |
4 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
5 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
6 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
7 | The trees poise to eject leaves and hurl them at the wind , there is nobody in the big house to see the park 's invasion by the people , the iron benches under the elms are empty , each foot curling into a clutch of leaves . |
8 | But what brought her to the point of retaliation was the sight of his hands mauling a plate of sliced mutton , digging his fingers into the pieces of meat and snatching them up and trying to screw them up like pieces of paper and hurl them at the bookcase . |
9 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
10 | In its case , however , the eye-spots are on the front wings and are exposed by suddenly spreading the folded wings and directing them at the attacker . |
11 | ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’ |
12 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |
13 | Our business is to ensure that what we are doing now is done properly , not to take on board new activities and try and finance them at the expense of groups which are already suffering very poor , or at least inadequate services . |
14 | and nobble them at the start of the conference . |
15 | The volume of consumption should be adjusted by altering taxes and social insurance contributions , raising them to dampen down a boom and cutting them at the beginning of a depression . |
16 | Finally , in contrast to the previous characteristics , there are modifications which seem to have a more didactic function : corrections , display questions and a tendency on the part of the adult to initiate a high proportion of topics , and to pursue them at the expense of the topics that the child might wish to introduce . |
17 | Elspeth is prepared ( her schedule permitting ) to drop guests at the start and collect them at the end of walks . |
18 | The record at the LEA level is , as we have seen earlier , not a promising one , since LEAs have been much more effective at producing curriculum policies than at monitoring and implementing them at the school level . |
19 | I propose Elizabeth that you circulate Jenny 's reprocedures to everyone but we do n't know with them , that we will read them prior to the next meeting and agree them at the meeting papers turning I have got to assess papers turning take one . |
20 | ‘ What are you going to do instead ? ’ asks Phil , chewing up little pieces of graph paper into sodden balls , and flicking them at the laboratory ceiling with a slide-rule to try and make them stick . |
21 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |
22 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
23 | Hire purchase — personal customers hire goods for an agreed length of time and buy them at the end of the period for a low price . |
24 | In Chicago on June 17 she attacked those attempting " to create a new artificial state by taking powers away from national states and concentrating them at the centre " . |
25 | Their education certainly suffered as the teachers did not like them interrupting the curriculum and sat them at the back of the class and told them to write home . |