Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 2 | WHILE Swansea maintained their position at the head of the Heineken League 's Division One with a comfortable 23–4 win over bottom club Maesteg , Llanelli stayed in touch , one point behind , by beating Cardiff 22–6 . |
| 3 | Racing cyclists generally like to meet their fans at the beginning of a stage , but do n't ask for autographs today . |
| 4 | Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts . |
| 5 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 6 | They did n't appear to mind me playing a double game , allying with each in turn , then becoming their opponent at the next round . |
| 7 | It is much better to evaluate information needs and establish information flows in advance of the decision-making process than to discover their omission at a later stage . |
| 8 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 9 | In addition , the GEMMs , IDBs and SEMBs report their positions at the close of each day to the Bank of England , which analyses them and provides a risk assessment by the next day , although the Bank also takes other broad factors into consideration for its supervisory functions . |
| 10 | Expect his team to group around the yellow jersey , lots of nervousness and shoving in the peloton , while adventurous riders test their strength at the front . |
| 11 | In the Lancashire Ladies League last year 's winners Liverpool have beaten Marple 5-0 to establish their position at the top . |
| 12 | DEPORTIVO Coruna underlined their Spanish championship aspirations by thrashing Real Sociedad 5-1 yesterday to consolidate their position at the top of the league . |
| 13 | And they started keeping their clothes at the pit . |
| 14 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 15 | Writers and actors have been pledging their support at the start of National Library Week . |
| 16 | However , Fleischmann and Pons were announcing their results at the press conference before they had told any of their scientific colleagues . |
| 17 | I agree with Eldon Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer that : ‘ Like all of education , physical education should provide opportunities for students to try their hand at a variety of activities as sources of possible self-realization . |
| 18 | The estate 's extensive grounds offer excellent opportunities for many pleasant walks and include a small lake where guests are permitted to try their hand at a little fishing . |
| 19 | They include a party of German businessmen , keen to try their hand at the traditional Highland Games sports of shot-putting and caber-tossing , and a group of Australians . |
| 20 | The court said that he was plainly soliciting their custom at a time when he was under a duty of fidelity to his employer and awarded his former employers damages . |
| 21 | It is almost always difficult to discover how these men built their fortunes at the beginning , because they leave no significant mark in the records until they have already made some mark in society . |
| 22 | They trio were allegedly caught with a booby-trap bomb when police stopped their car at a checkpoint at Upper Cairncaslte Road , Larne on April 18 last year . |
| 23 | Michael Hickey , his cousin Vincent Hickey and James Robinson were jailed in 1979 for the murder of 13-year-old Carl as he disturbed their burglary at a remote farmhouse in Stourbridge , West Midlands in September , 1978 . |
| 24 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 25 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 26 | ( They will already have curled their lip at a book such as this and moved on . ) |
| 27 | In the case of' Playne and Smith , they concentrated their efforts at a single site , Dunkirk , modernising it and installing a steam engine and power-looms . |
| 28 | The two soon concentrated their business at the Albion brewery . |
| 29 | Harper had been right , they had merely been changing their aim , and now the French gunners concentrated their shots at the centre of the field . |
| 30 | No word had come from Rose , and surely she would have cancelled their arrangements at the least hint of scandal ? |