Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] they at " in BNC.
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1 | My results were received with general disbelief when I announced them at a conference near Oxford . |
2 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
3 | I got them at a craft fair at farm . |
4 | I found them at last . |
5 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
6 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
7 | ‘ I told them at half-time that Batty was an aggressive player who would challenge hard and that they should n't expect any less — maybe I should have warned them before the start . |
8 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
9 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
10 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
11 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
12 | She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table . |
13 | I followed them at all three , but if The Valley was a 100 miles away , I 'd still be back . ’ |
14 | I 'd heard that American Music Club were something wonderful , but when I saw them at the Grand in Clapham recently , I was n't that impressed . |
15 | They had their valets with them and they were here they would been maybe I saw them at the time . |
16 | Well I saw them at the , er round the corner at Mount Man Road , on that estate |
17 | So I took them at their word and phoned them up . |
18 | It gives me special pleasure to be present at the wedding of my good friends Annabelle and Steven , because I introduced them at the Dashing Disco/Royal Hotel/Country Club and because I have known both of them for many years at school/the tennis club . |
19 | So saying , with all her strength she flung them at him , so that they scythed across his desk , scattering letters and papers . |
20 | Makes it pretty it improves it 's just a mou , you know mouse mat you got them at school . |
21 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
22 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
23 | You finished them at school ? |
24 | His nan 's abhorrence of the neighbourhood toms was legendary , and her punishment merciless when she heard them at it , raw-arsed and rampant , in the nightly flesh pit of the back yard . |
25 | But , to her surprise , when she tied them at the back they were hardly any weight at all . |
26 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
27 | There 's about fifty Europeans on the island — including Americans — and there 's plenty of men anxious to do a bit of gardening , or women ready to earn a day 's wages doing the laundry — you saw them at work — or sewing . |
28 | George , a former school truant and now a construction trainee , said : ‘ At least I did something … but the others , you saw them at school , just lazy . ’ |
29 | She spotted them at the door and waved them over . |
30 | She left them at the studio when she called and I have n't her name or address . |