Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] them at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | send tapes in , or leave them at reception . |
| 2 | They were impressed by her intelligent appreciation of political matters and took to consulting her on political problems that confronted them at work . |
| 3 | Surely this is the moment when the strong west should be able to offer a hand of assistance to those countries , rather than holding them at arm 's length while it completes its own internal workings . |
| 4 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 5 | When she realizes that by controlling these cries , and producing them at will rather than automatically , she can influence the behaviour of her parents , she has progressed to the directive function . |
| 6 | There are those who claim that canvassing the votes of the electorate is a waste of time : that they are at least as likely to vote for you if you leave them alone as they are if you go round and bother them at night . |
| 7 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 8 | From a practical standpoint we are suffering from some jail overcrowding problems here and certainly this was one option to take an offender who does n't really belong behind iron bars and punish them at home , and from a personal standpoint I was sort of intrigued with the novelty of it all and the technology aspects of it . |
| 9 | that 's lovely , one off each strip , one for you and one for me , have to go and claim them at tea time . |
| 10 | Visitors unencumbered by cars get an even better introduction by embarking at Glenfinnan on the small passenger boat that plies the seventeen miles of Loch Shiel and delivers them at Acharacle without effort on their part : an idyllic cruise . |
| 11 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
| 12 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 13 | Here the individual pixels are about the size of characters and you can Set and Reset them at will . |
| 14 | Have chips no more than twice a week and if preparing them at home have them cut very thick . |
| 15 | As applies in the treatment of fungal attack , in the eradication of insect pests it is necessary to identify the unhealthy conditions which have invited the attack , and to cure them at source . |
| 16 | In the early stages we were we you know used to take phone calls and take them at face value , and we got a phone call like this . |
| 17 | Researchers can trap them in frozen gases and study them at leisure |
| 18 | Crown counsel said the Belfast men bound and gagged Sarah Kennedy , her two young sons and a school-friend and held them at gunpoint in the house at My Lady 's Mile , Holywood , on November 27 , 1991 . |
| 19 | It is boring , often done in locations where it is difficult to avoid ‘ bosses ’ , it affords only a limited range of ‘ bluffs ’ or easing techniques , and is looked down upon by regular policemen and women , a view unintentionally reinforced by those sergeants who apologize to regulars when asking them at parade to do sanger duty . |