Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] they at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 2 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 3 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 4 | If by staying at Lichfield His Royal Highness had resolved to provide against their reaching Derby , he must have left them at liberty to have got into Wales without any difficulty … |
| 5 | We should have beaten them at their place as well . |
| 6 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 7 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |