Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 2 | So , they kick in at different stages . |
| 3 | It looked good for the cherry and whites , as they turned round at half time with an 8-0 lead . |
| 4 | Cut away the waste wood around the ears with the coping saw , and use the 1in shallow gouge to further shape them and the nostrils so that they angle back at each side . |
| 5 | They were indolent and addicted to a life of pleasure : ‘ They get up at any hour they choose , and go out and amuse themselves . ’ |
| 6 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 7 | They just energetically throw the pebbles around , and big pebbles and small pebbles respond differently to this treatment so they end up at different levels of the beach . |
| 8 | Nor do they branch off at acute angles or form perfect oblongs . |
| 9 | The pilot agreed and together they took off at 1047 hrs . |
| 10 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 11 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
| 12 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |