Example sentences of "[prep] them at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the other dancers made life difficult for them at first , resenting the physical advantages the South Africans had enjoyed , growing up far away from the hardships of wartime Britain . |
| 2 | When they did not return that night , Richard led a search party for them at first light the following morning . |
| 3 | This had introduced them to mechanisms which suggested a terminology applicable to their own science making it possible for them at last to give the behaviourists , who had been giving those not of their ilk a hard time , some of their own medicine . |
| 4 | Since 1985 , Heidrick and Struggles in London has more than tripled its number of consultants — from five to fifteen — most of them at first new to search and comparatively young . |
| 5 | People did not want to hold hands with either of them at first , but without her red cloak to remind them of sin , they quickly forgot who Izzie was . |
| 6 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 7 | There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him . |
| 8 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |