Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly lower the arms , still keeping them slightly bent at the elbows until the dumb-bells are level with the chest . |
| 2 | The Sunshine Girls were the only troupe to travel as far as St Petersburg and Budapest but it was noticeable that they rarely worked at the Winter Gardens which was Jennie 's stronghold . |
| 3 | They duly arrived at the perimeter wire of the airfield and to their left they noticed a pair of Italian sentries manning a roadblock . |
| 4 | But without proper government action , they only scratch at the problem . |
| 5 | Now they claim they only signed at the suggestion of Attorney-General Sir Nicholas Lyell — and the buck passes on . |
| 6 | Set above an aquiline nose , they only hinted at the sensuality which was clearly evident in the curved line of his mouth and his hard , determined chin . |
| 7 | What is more , even when the valves of a really large specimen are fully closed , they only meet at the spikes on the edge . |
| 8 | She said they only look at the car 's registration number . |
| 9 | Cos my feeling is t they only look at the pictures , |
| 10 | They just knocked at the door and said how would you care to take part ? |
| 11 | Why did n't they just stop at the sea ? |
| 12 | Some are completely on another plateau , you know , they 're just not in the real world ; they wander round and do n't make eye-contact unless they 're talking to you ; they just look at the ceiling all the time when they 're lecturing . |
| 13 | They just look at the report in the paper and say how on earth was this man fined fifty pounds for this offence . |
| 14 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 15 | The brilliant beams of their torches were like searchlights , swinging wildly for a second , until they finally converged at the back of a container with its door ripped open and lying at a crazy angle . |
| 16 | When they finally arrived at the cathedral , the world held its collective breath and Diana , with her father leaning heavily on her arm , walked with painful slowness down the aisle . |
| 17 | Was n't that what they always said at the Lab ? |
| 18 | They usually emerge at the end of a chain of exasperating events — a toing-and-froing between parent and child — and convey an unambiguous parental message : ‘ I have had it ! |
| 19 | They also looked at the bug from her phone . |
| 20 | They also remove at a stroke the central workplace the bedrock of strong trade union organization . |
| 21 | Not only did they guard the bridge crossing the Tyne , but they also stood at the junction of the Stanegate , running west towards Carlisle , and Dere Street , one of the two main arterial routes from York into central southern Scotland . |
| 22 | When the labourers around Arundel rioted in 1549 , although their main grievances were economic , they also protested at the changes in the familiar rituals . |
| 23 | Children with previous experience not only did the shows at the Pavilion at 2 pm and 7 pm but they also appeared at the Ballroom in between , thoroughly enjoying the mad rush . |
| 24 | They also complained at the release of another man detained with Dalkammoni , Marwant Khreesat , reportedly a Jordanian or West German intelligence agent who was believed to have produced a total of five or six bombs at the time . |
| 25 | Mr Berge , appointed in September last year by his friend President Mitterrand , opened the conference with the declaration that despite the jealous and envious reports of the foreign press they now had at the Opera a ‘ welded team ’ and were in a condition of being ‘ resonant and reasonable ’ . |
| 26 | Erm , but the small accounts , yes , and they frighten T N T off , too expensive T N T , before they even look at the price . |
| 27 | When the police ordered him to end it , he complied at once , his half-dozen supporters singing the National Anthem as they invariably did at the conclusion of their gatherings . |
| 28 | Two pieces of string can join together to form a single string ; ================================================================= in the case of open strings they simply join at the ends ( Fig. 10.3 ) , while in the case of closed strings it is like the two legs joining on a pair of trousers ( Fig. 10.4 ) . |
| 29 | They simply tear at the flesh of the victim until the animal is weak from loss of blood , when they pull it over and start to devour it . |
| 30 | A common criticism of both these theories is that they simply look at the end result of education ; they are examples of an ‘ input/output ’ model . |