Example sentences of "they [vb base] at [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 2 | They appear at any time from mid-summer onwards . |
| 3 | They look at each other in mutual love and self-giving , a trinity yet together revealing the unity of the Godhead . |
| 4 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 5 | They begin at one end of the hall and finish at the other end , the North American steadily retreating , the South American relentlessly advancing . |
| 6 | They grasp at each other with numbed fingers for the comfort of touch . |