Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 2 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 3 | The term wastes , as used in early documents , is in modern parlance a misuse of the word , as they also existed at lower levels where arable and pasture might be expected . |
| 4 | They also stayed at different hotels to the professionals . |
| 5 | They then cruised at seventy mph to the cottage , thirty miles along the coast . |