Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 2 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 3 | You were allowed up to three visitors at a time and had to sit opposite them at individual tables . |
| 4 | Keep condoms handy , so you do n't have to go tearing around looking for them at that crucial moment . |
| 5 | Havelock Wilson who had , of course , been among those leaders to whom Larkin 's vituperation had been particularly directed , reserved his regrets for the oppressed people of Ireland whose cause had been so ill served by the " blunders and follies " of Larkin who " had such a splendid case , but made such a sorry mess of it , doing everything he ought not to have done and nothing that he ought to " and bringing , by his defeat , comfort to the Irish employers who had nothing good to be said for them at all . |
| 6 | Almost two years after the beer orders went through the House , we are entitled to ask the Minister what good came of them at last . |
| 7 | When teachers , matrons , the housemistress and finally the headmistress all started to show some concern and more disapproval at my unco-operative ( anorexic ) behaviour , I refused to answer their questions , or even to talk to them at all , and during the course of their homilies I merely stared out of the window or smiled to myself in a superior , scornful sort of way . |
| 8 | You were gon na work for them at one point Rich . |
| 9 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 10 | He will play for defending champions Kelburne tomorrow against DW Clydesdale and will be available to play for them at regular intervals throughout the second half of the season in addition to the finals of the European Club Championship in May . |
| 11 | On the marker posts that you see , the next time you , you travel past them at ninety miles an hour if you get time to see them , there is actually , a picture of the telephone headset and a number under that headset there will be an arrow pointing you in the direction of the nearest emergency telephone . |
| 12 | Do you believe in them at all ? |
| 13 | This may be the thing that the world as a whole would want to buy from them at economic rates . |
| 14 | If any readers have any information about this legendary team , in particular personal recollection , I should be very grateful indeed to hear from them at this address . |
| 15 | It is essential , though , that the knowledge and skills people have are not taken from them , repackaged and sold to them at exorbitant prices . |
| 16 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 17 | Jack and Rose Hayward were attacked by two men who fired at them at close range . |
| 18 | There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him . |
| 19 | But the long smelly trails snaking along the branches and renewed repeatedly every night , also mark out the main highways through the tree so that , if necessary , the bush babies can scamper along them at considerable speed in the pitch blackness . |
| 20 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 21 | She felt her feet trailing through the weeds that grew at the side of the track , nettles and thistles tearing her skin as she was dragged through them at high speed . |
| 22 | So you have to ask yourself if a company consistently advertises products for less than they 're actually selling for — do you want to deal with them at all ? |
| 23 | my Lord I I do have some other observations on matters with Mr but it maybe more economical and effective on the new issues to wait until after Mr has addressed you and to deal with them at one point |
| 24 | I said I 'd meet with them at eleven o'clock to arrange the details . ’ |
| 25 | do n't act gormless , you do n't know what to do with them at fifty two |
| 26 | There was nothing , and suddenly there was everything : solid , sodden fields slightly canted over , and three , four German aircraft flying across them at fifteen hundred feet . |
| 27 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 28 | ‘ I get a lot of laughs from everyone who sees me , especially when I 'm going across long grass and all they can see is an airline captain coming towards them at great speed with exhaust smoke coming from my rear end . |
| 29 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 30 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |