Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun pl] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Life of Thomas Hardy ‘ they found lodgings at the house of an invalided captain of smacks and ketches ; and Hardy , suspending his house-hunting , settled down for the autumn and winter to finish his fifth novel , The Hand of Ethelberta ’ . |
| 2 | Not only did they monitor landings at the wharf , they also sifted through refuse dumps to find the remains of butchered dolphins , to estimate catches in previous seasons . |
| 3 | For their third cinematic adventure of the decade ( unless one counts the showing of George V 's funeral ) , they booked tickets at the cinema in Great Malvern to see Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves It turned out to be ‘ first rate … |
| 4 | Local students were so excited that they threw stones at the painting . |
| 5 | Early one morning , just before the end , they threw grenades at the front of our house . |
| 6 | Top management at TV group Granada face a potentially rough ride when they confront shareholders at the company 's annual meeting today . |
| 7 | do they have patterns at the side ? |
| 8 | ‘ Would they have records at the bookie 's to show you 'd been there , sir ? ’ |
| 9 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |
| 10 | Can they get jobs at the end of it ? |
| 11 | they had the stallions down there then you see , they had stallions at the stud . |
| 12 | Both of them have workshops at the Abbey and are members of what they call a spiritual community there . |