Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 2 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 3 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 4 | They were impressed by her intelligent appreciation of political matters and took to consulting her on political problems that confronted them at work . |
| 5 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 6 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 7 | Eventually the scars healed , more or less , and today many apparently natural heaths are no more than those ancient tips , covered in vegetation that colonised them at its own slow rate . |
| 8 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 9 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 10 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 11 | The Athenians came out and fought them at Tanagra ( 457 ) ; the Spartans first won but then Athens retrieved this defeat under Myronides at Oinophyta two months later . |
| 12 | With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him . |
| 13 | Henry Tudor found that there was still considerable opposition to him becoming King , particularly from ‘ Yorkshire ’ pretenders , who included Margaret of Burgundy , for whom an Oxford tradesman called Simnel , crossed into England from Ireland , in the summer of 1487 , with a force of two thousand German mercenaries , but Henry — who had become King Henry VII , in September 1485 — raised a larger army and defeated them at Newark . |
| 14 | She lifted the bottle and glasses and slammed them at him . |
| 15 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 16 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 17 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 18 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 19 | Chaman pulled out her dentures and flourished them at us . |
| 20 | There were quite a few noted cheesemakers in Cotherstone at the time , including the Misses Hutchinson and the Hodgson family , and Aunt Hannah also used to make cheeses with the help of my Aunt Mary , who lived in Lartington , and showed them at Eggleston Show . |
| 21 | He picked up a bunch of bananas and threw them at his son-in-law , hitting him so hard in the chest that Changez toppled off his stool and badly bruised his good arm . |
| 22 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |
| 23 | ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’ |
| 24 | He snatched the trousers and sweater that hung from a hanger on the wall , and threw them at her , the gesture violent . |
| 25 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 26 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 27 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 28 | The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place . |
| 29 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
| 30 | They talked for ages , making their drinks last , and no one came and bothered them at all . |