Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work out how many woodlice you will have in 10 years ' time if they continue to multiply at this rate . |
| 2 | He criticised the overbearing volume and the occasional out-of-tune playing , but still noted that : ‘ If they continue to improve at this rate , they 're going to make a name for themselves . |
| 3 | Well a comment really , I was sitting browsing at Blackwell 's sale , and they 've got at half price , a beautiful book I was skimming through , with photographs of Victorian fashion , if you 're interested |
| 4 | Sometimes they wo n't , intuitive people ca n't actually tell you exactly how they 've arrived at this perception , they 've just got it . |
| 5 | For if a holder thinks that the buyers will really be able to get at 36s. all that they care to take at that price , he will be unwilling to let slip past him any offer that is well above that price . |
| 6 | NEIL Kinnock and the party he leads are looking better than they have done at any time since he took office in 1983 . |
| 7 | The ideological differences which have emerged no matter how defined by warring factions , are nevertheless traceable , in general , to the differing responses which they have made at those times in their histories when the need to make the decision became manifest . |
| 8 | Both are using other people as pawns in a game in which they need to win at all costs . |