Example sentences of "[verb] them at [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see them at their best , keep a small shoal , although in an aquarium of your size , two should be quite happy . |
| 2 | To see them at their best , keep a small shoal . |
| 3 | It 's catching them at it that 's difficult . |
| 4 | Ben and his young friends had been told at the start of the meeting to behave themselves and not get in the way of the other archers , so they were not too pleased when he beat them at their own game . |
| 5 | On a Jamaican cattle ranch acquired in settlement of some debts , he freed the slaves and transported them at his own expense to Philadelphia for resettlement . |
| 6 | really got to play them at their own game really . |
| 7 | As for the Archduke , though I personally prefer a more tautly sustained sense of direction in the opening Allegro moderato , this performance as a whole reveals them at their best , with a truly rapt and spacious slow movement as prime proof of their vision . |
| 8 | The subject is similar — the Edwardian English abroad — but this shows them at their bigoted best . |
| 9 | Tranmere were on a roll and , to be fair , there are not many First Division sides that can stop them at their best . |
| 10 | As despair grew and self respect diminished we would take them at their unspoken word and go and buy a bottle of anaesthetic and uncork the genie who would play merry hell with the last vestige of hope of recovery . |
| 11 | I recently saw them at my local garden centre . |
| 12 | The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush . |
| 13 | Unless everyone knows their rules , they ca n't play them at their own game , and there can be no equality of opportunity . |
| 14 | If anybody wants to employ them , they should know before , and then employ them at their own risk . |
| 15 | The widely read and influential book of the French politician and columnist , ServanSchreiber , translated as The Amer–can Challenge ( 1968 ) , summed up these fears ahout the loss of economic independence , and recommended that European industry and commerce should learn from the methods of the Americans and try to beat them at their own game . |
| 16 | Do n't worry if you ca n't do it if you ca n't any of these any of these exercises that I give you by the way it 's not like homework it 's just for you to play with them to get the do them at your own pace . |
| 17 | It is called benefit and and the well being of those kids about there , that we 're educating them at our own school , that they can have jobs and work , and if this is going , my fear is , okay we can live within this , s as you say , it may that it 's just bad settlement for one year . |
| 18 | The Prince did n't even wait for an answer but turned to a small table beside him , slopped two goblets full of wine , rose and thrust them at his unwanted guests . |
| 19 | Mr Major raised the tax on company cars 20% ( yielding £200m ) , but taxing them at their full value would have collected another £300m . |
| 20 | Count Tarnowski has managed to recover ownership of pictures ( the tail-end of the collection that once contained both the Frick 's ‘ Polish Rider ’ and the Met 's ‘ Perseus ’ by Canova ) appropriated by the National Museum in Warsaw in 1945 , and intends to display them at his old country house of Dzikow . |
| 21 | Leaving them at their close door he walked off , frowning . |
| 22 | And if I sometimes see them at their worst , I sometimes see them at their best as well . |
| 23 | And if I sometimes see them at their worst , I sometimes see them at their best as well . |
| 24 | Eventually the scars healed , more or less , and today many apparently natural heaths are no more than those ancient tips , covered in vegetation that colonised them at its own slow rate . |
| 25 | One interesting practice , for example , is for two businesses , both short of funds , to exchange P Notes of the same value and tenor , and discount them at their respective banks — presumably when most other sources of finance have been exhausted . |