Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their friendship blossomed when they met again at the funeral and developed into a love that was to stretch across forty years of marriage . |
| 2 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 3 | They rode forward at the walk , but their weapons were ready . |
| 4 | They checked right at the start of the inquiry . |
| 5 | By and large , those extra ’ advantages ’ , as the Labour party calls them , for the employee have to be paid for out of the profits of the organisation as a whole and they eat away at the capital that the business would ultimately have available to reinvest in jobs . |
| 6 | Whilst they are here , we hope that they rub away at the image of Birmingham and find its reality . |
| 7 | When they dined together at the Perroquet in March 1951 , they talked among other things about ‘ British painting and what had happened to it since the high hopes of the war ’ . |
| 8 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 9 | They covered that without difficulty before dark , their only delay a meeting-up with their late fellow-invaders , the Armstrongs , whom they came across at the Kershopefoot crossing of Liddel Water , driving an even larger drove of cattle from Gilsland than the main body had collected , and taking a more northerly course home . |
| 10 | ‘ When they found a policeman at the pay-off they must have panicked , ’ Major Volpi had remarked to Di Leonardo when they arrived together at the scene in a Carabinieri helicopter . |
| 11 | They all s they stand there at the door going lighter as if it matters they have to get off the train with a cigarette in their mouth or they 're uncool , some shit like this |
| 12 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 13 | ‘ Last time I came , ’ David was saying , as they turned left at the end of the main road , ‘ I think I remember some larger houses along here . ’ |
| 14 | They knocked loudly at the door , but there was no reply . |
| 15 | They glanced curiously at the line of official vehicles which drove along the boulevard running along the lower ridges of the city , through a gateway and down in a series of long , lazy curves , dropping over two hundred metres to the valley floor . |
| 16 | Start the keys and paper at rest at the same place — the same height above the Moon 's surface — and they arrive together at the ground at the same time . |
| 17 | She opened the door thankfully , ready with polite expressions of welcome , but they died away at the sight of the tear-stained , pale faces before her . |
| 18 | In the sixties , fashion was such that a girl or a fella could afford a new Biba dress or John Stephen shirt every other week , they cost 35s 9d and who cared if they fell apart at the launderette . |
| 19 | They went home at the end of the afternoon , just is the cloud slid back like a shutter and let clear yellow light stream along the valley from the west . |
| 20 | They looked across at the railway station . |
| 21 | However , the world 's preponderance of very poor people want to get richer as quickly as they can and are probably not too concerned if they do so at the expense of the environment . |
| 22 | As NOSTRO accounts increase , they do so at the expense of US domestic bank accounts . |
| 23 | ( They laugh good-naturedly at the mistake . |
| 24 | They waited together at the bus stop for Clelia 's bus , and as the bus approached Clelia said confirming , " Next Sunday , then , you 'll come and see us ? " |
| 25 | If this is true , then why do n't they roll right at the surface like 80 per cent of other bream ? |
| 26 | At the Art College , after a preliminary course in the first year , students choose their area of practical specialisation and pursue it to the fifth year , when they work full-time at the College with no timetabled commitments at the University . |