Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [pron] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1	I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill .
2	Now they want to use them at home .
3	Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall .
4	To cut a long story short , they did rejoin us at lunch-time , De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty .
5	They 've done it at Cherwell .
6	Ah but I think , I was saying I think they 've I think they 've tested them at customs .
7	They 've got them at work like that and they were about nearly three hundred pounds new
8	They 've got him at Broadman 's place !
9	Er I think they 've got it at Presto on .
10	A planchette , they had called it at school .
11	This was style , as they had taught her at school .
12	They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper .
13	‘ It is quite simply not fair either to other police officers or to the public they serve to put them at risk by failing to deal with poor performance . ’
14	And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine .
15	It is surprising how few students realize the full potential of simple diatonic harmony , even after they have studied it at school and university .
16	For students — young people and adults alike — it will mean more opportunities to gain new skills , obtain qualifications and develop fully the roles that they need to fulfil themselves at work and as citizens .

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