Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 2 | They sit staring at the sunlight reflected off the monotonous river . |
| 3 | Other protestors , including the Cleveland-based Neon , also gave details of the evidence they intend to give at the inquiry . |
| 4 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 5 | His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail . |
| 6 | They suffer from fatigue , they hear of housewives being stressed , and they say look at the stress of housework . |
| 7 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 8 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 9 | He had stuck to his story , that they 'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early . |
| 10 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 11 | As he said it , he held her eyes and suddenly Ronni was remembering that glass of champagne they 'd shared at the party . |
| 12 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 13 | ‘ They came in their full march into the town with about 60 or 70 coloureds borne before them which they 'd taken at the Battle of Edgehill from the Parliament 's forces . |
| 14 | Of course there was the occasional hiccup , such as when they 'd arrived at the nightclub to see a particularly gorgeous girl whom the Press had linked with Ace in the past . |
| 15 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 16 | With Girlschool reconvened , and the arrival of Jackie Carrera on bass , they seem poised at the beginning of a newish era , but what have been the high spots of the band 's history so far ? |
| 17 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 18 | Instead of a glance , which is always acceptable , they keep staring at the animal in a way that makes it feel uncomfortable . |
| 19 | They went to look at the jewellery piled on a table on the far side of the courtyard . |
| 20 | It was Bizet 's Carmen they went to hear at the Opera . |
| 21 | yes , but they do know , le let's go back a bit further , but they do know at the beginning of the world most of it is water |
| 22 | So , anybody entering the exhibition is encouraged to stand on a spot at the bottom of the stairs , and they place in the token that they 've bought at the box office , as they do so , they get flooded in light , and the special computer voice made by the university takes you through into the exhibition . |
| 23 | You can have it , they 're talking about the farm that they 've got at the School |
| 24 | and you mean to tell me with all that equipment the machine that they 've got at the college , you could n't get it done there ? |
| 25 | That 's National Savings , and to my mind the only good issue they 've got at the moment , and er once you get with index-linked certificates , they were originally the granny bonds that were launched er in the early er late seventies , early eighties . |
| 26 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 27 | Inside the great marquee , Mattocks roses from Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire have impressed the judges with their display , winning them a gold medal — they 're not quite sure , but they think it 's the 20th they 've won at the show . |
| 28 | Mr. S. Walker left a note for the Board of Guardians expressing thanks for their kind and courteous hearing when his group had been interviewed on the subject of the unemployed marchers , and for the treatment they had received at the institution . |
| 29 | So Elizabeth told her everything that had happened today and after half an hour they decided to tell everyone what the they had done at the disco that night . |
| 30 | When they had met at the pub , and boasted of the ease of the despatch of the packet that Michael Holly would carry , he had never thought of a moment such as this . |