Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] they [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm there have been attempts to brighten them up at various times . |
| 2 | John Delaney knew now that all along it had been hunting them , that it was still hunting them , waiting for the right moment to pick them off at will , one at a time . |
| 3 | In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ . |
| 4 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 5 | However they still have good players — Zlatko Vujovic , Stojkovic and Susic for example — and England will have an opportunity to check them out at Wembley next week . |
| 6 | Emily got Stanley to drop them off at Vic 's house ; or rather his father 's house , since strictly speaking Vic 's address was the shed . |