Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 2 | His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail . |
| 3 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 4 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 5 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 6 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 7 | They went to look at the jewellery piled on a table on the far side of the courtyard . |
| 8 | It was Bizet 's Carmen they went to hear at the Opera . |
| 9 | If they chose to quarrel at the tops of their voices , that was their business . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 11 | The players , who already knew the value of the advertising dollar , were endlessly pumped onto the television advertisements ( most of them in soft focus ) as they mouthed clichés and manufactured statements about what they hoped to do at the World Cup . |
| 12 | The two of them continued to stare at the group . |