Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sit staring at the sunlight reflected off the monotonous river . |
| 2 | Other protestors , including the Cleveland-based Neon , also gave details of the evidence they intend to give at the inquiry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They suffer from fatigue , they hear of housewives being stressed , and they say look at the stress of housework . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Instead of a glance , which is always acceptable , they keep staring at the animal in a way that makes it feel uncomfortable . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | They do look at the statistics the government statistics for fertility and mortality , but they have then the ability to amend , to adjust to local erm to match up with local information . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You can have it , they 're talking about the farm that they 've got at the School |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The treatment they 've had at the Oxford Rhesus therapy centre has saved her unborn baby 's life . |
| 16 | After ten years in a department working , for example , on housing , the fact that one man 's undergraduate degree was in philosophy and another 's in sociology will make little or no difference ; what will matter is the capacity and experience they have developed at the task . |
| 17 | Looseknit networks are hard to deal with chiefly because a multi-valued speaker variable like social network involves comparing speakers who differ from each other in certain respects — let us say in respect of the multiplexity of the ties which they have contracted at the workplace — but are still similar enough to each other in other related respects to make such a comparison meaningful . |
| 18 | And 1991 is also the sixth year in a row that they have played at the BBC Proms . |
| 19 | In Cleaver 's terms ( 1979 ) , they have remained at the level of mere political economy by seeking to explain without making change central to their project . |
| 20 | The people of Northern Ireland naturally and rightly reason that if what they have suffered at the hands of the southern-spawned IRA , they have suffered while a majority , how much greater would that persecution not be if they ever entered a state in which they were a perpetual minority . |
| 21 | Shadows will be asked to write a short report of what they have learned at the end of the exercise . |
| 22 | After finishing cocktails and going into that gorgeous , lofty , airy dining-room , and especially getting a window table as we were lucky enough to , you have had the best of what they have to offer at the Ritz , considerable as this is . |
| 23 | Remember , the one in the north is arriving in stages , beginning with a small group of horsemen from Leven who will be unsupported for at least two hours after they have arrived at the Tay . |
| 24 | They have worked at the Halewood plant on Merseyside for 20 years . |
| 25 | They have looked at the commission of offences reported over time by a sample of youths in longitudinal surveys . |
| 26 | ‘ They have to look at the laws now . |
| 27 | But to protect the fruits of 7 years of their labour , they feel they have to stay at the site . |