Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] they at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 2 | With a spreadsheet you can alter values , constants or the formulae relating them at will and the entire sheet will reflect these changes , instantly . |
| 3 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 4 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 5 | England battled hard to get back into contention throughout the second half , but the Scots kept them at arm 's length and ran out worthy winners . |
| 6 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 7 | The law puts them at risk from oncoming forwards and I can see a spate of potentially serious injuries . |
| 8 | Mr McQueen joined them at table , and gave Johnson the kind of local knowledge he loved — the economics , way of life , problems of such an existence . |
| 9 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 10 | The fishermen catch them at night , using bright lights to attract the molluscs ' attention . |
| 11 | They want the driver and anyone who saw the accident to contact them at Group 4 Traffic on 051 777 5559 . |
| 12 | We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether reps get them at home , do they ? |
| 14 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |
| 15 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 16 | Undertakers ' men and grave-diggers had to be copiously supplied with liquor to keep them at work , and this added to the disorder and indecency . |
| 17 | Letting people see them at work . |
| 18 | Visiting players , Raimundo , the grooms and Alejandro looked at her with ill-concealed lust , but her dead-pan hauteur and Señor Gracias ' large , looming presence kept them at bay . |
| 19 | My voice holds them at bay . |
| 20 | I says she 'll get Gary to collect them at work and that I says |
| 21 | In addition , some Compact employers may wish to invite parents to visit their premises to see them at work . |
| 22 | A COUPLE told yesterday of their terror when two escaped convicts kidnapped them at gunpoint . |
| 23 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 24 | I tell you what your dad 's taken us to playschool to show them at play school wo n't you ? |
| 25 | Police are appealing for anyone who was near the service station at 9.15pm on Saturday or anyone who saw the gold-coloured car being abandoned in the school grounds to contact them at North Ormesby CID on Middlesbrough 301835 . |