Example sentences of "they [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A planchette , they had called it at school . |
| 5 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 6 | 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 . |