Example sentences of "[coord] at their [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That power is even greater for the children when they read poetry by habit , sitting on scatter cushions in the library , perhaps , or at their desks . |
| 2 | Persons in close contact with them at work or at their houses were drawn from the majority population for ‘ security reasons ’ . |
| 3 | Roberta and Faye were asleep or at their women 's place . |
| 4 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |
| 5 | ‘ So if Tomkiss and Wattling feel impelled to express their artistic bent in any form of … metalwork , it will have to be , I fear , in their own time , and at their parents ’ expense . |
| 6 | Her friends , all equally indecisive , had no need to hurry their decisions , for nothing lay at their backs , pulling them , sucking them , dragging at their sleeves and at their hems . |
| 7 | And at their feet , a white-clad sacrificial victim , was the body . |
| 8 | Looking at the guards in their bumble-bee uniforms and at their guns , I do n't know what they do to the burglars , but they scare the hell out of me . |
| 9 | When they rise at dawn and in the twilight people should not be abroad , but at their prayers indoors . |
| 10 | The words and phrases they need for meetings , negotiating , and presentations will no longer be on the tip of their tongues but at their fingertips . |