Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September , when Edward had any spare time and Helen was free from work , they met frequently at the National Gallery , where they examined minutely Greek male and female statues , or at Janet 's lodgings . |
| 2 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 3 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 4 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 5 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |
| 6 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 7 | They came ashore at the small fishing ports of Mo i Rana and Bodö ; their headquarters group landing from their parent ship HMS Royal Ulsterman on 13 May 1940 . |
| 8 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 9 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 10 | And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire . |
| 11 | They laughed together at the sexy banter . |
| 12 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 13 | They sat down at the big kitchen table and Mrs Wood put the food on three hot plates . |