Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still more surprised when some of their parents arrived in motor cars to see them at the weekend |
| 2 | Jeannie — ’ They kissed again and then he was gone , running after the uplanders to catch them at Camserney mill . |
| 3 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 4 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Yes , I wanted you lads to catch them at it and arrest them ’ . ’ |
| 6 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 7 | Most potential clients visit them at Potton and attend one of the free seminars , held three times a week . |
| 8 | All depended on the navy and sometimes on the air force to land them at least somewhere near their target beaches . |
| 9 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 10 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 11 | Branson bought them at an auction which inflated the group 's price far beyond its true value . |
| 12 | Of course she feels strongly that as 65 per cent of women in Britain are actually larger than size 14 , clothing manufacturers ignore them at their peril . |
| 13 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
| 14 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |
| 15 | High Court medical negligence actions are governed by Ord 38 , r5 which requires the party intending to produce plans , photographs or models at trial to give the other side the opportunity to inspect them at least 10 days before the hearing unless the court for " special reasons " orders otherwise . |
| 16 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 17 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 18 | The next tunnel forked , turned left , turned right again , and other tunnels led off from it ; and Fand led them at an even pace along a course that seemed to have no sense . |
| 19 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 20 | They want management to trust them at a distance . |
| 21 | Hewett despatched Charlton around the outside of the inn to meet them at the outside door , while he and the landlord hurried through to the tap room . |
| 22 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 23 | England meet them at Wembley on March 28 , the date left vacant by the cancellation of the friendly against the Republic of Ireland . |
| 24 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 25 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 26 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 27 | Kingsley Barrett , the Methodist , whom Ramsey had chosen for the faculty at Durham , wrote of his belief that a special providence must watch over the Church of England to give them at least some good bishops in spite of the deplorable method of their appointment . |
| 28 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The camera signals are stored in separate buffers and the controller reads them at twice the rate at which they were written . |
| 30 | They were part of Japan until Russia occupied them at the end of the second world war , and the Japanese feel they are justified in wanting them back . |