Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 2 | tried to put them at our at the cost of our of the work for quite a while . |
| 3 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 4 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 6 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 7 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 8 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 9 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |
| 10 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 11 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 12 | really got to play them at their own game really . |
| 13 | Tate left a number of finished canvases which had never been shown and Edwin decided to release them at the rate of one a year through Ismay Gorton 's , the London gallery which handles his work . |
| 14 | Richard Wiles went to meet them at home . |
| 15 | I got a sun-'n'-sex postcard from Heraklion , worked out which day they 'd be returning , telephoned all possible airlines and went to meet them at Gatwick . |
| 16 | Traders were allowed to store unsold items and the Trade Ministry offered to buy them at reasonable prices . |
| 17 | The older children 's bodies were found after their mother Maeve went to wake them at 8.30am on the overnight Swansea-Cork ferry Celtic Pride . |
| 18 | In general , to this visiting UK pilot , New Zealand landing and parking charges seemed to be negligible , on those occasions when they bothered to levy them at all . |
| 19 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |
| 20 | He did feed them at one time , but they became so rampant he had to stop . |
| 21 | Half a dozen cutting remarks trembled on the tip of her tongue , but though she longed to hurl them at him , and watch him shrivel , she knew she could n't . |
| 22 | Jonna was not slow to remind them that he and Maisie hoped to see them at their wedding , due in a few weeks ' time at Easter . |
| 23 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 24 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 25 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 26 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 27 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Chauffeurs had met them at their Inn on the Park hotel , at seven o'clock sharp ; and at five minutes to eight they had taken their seats around the long elliptical table at European headquarters to ensure the meeting began on time , at precisely eight o'clock . |
| 29 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 30 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |