Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 2 | After the rehearsal they all , Miranda too , went to the Adelphi tea-rooms , where they laughed at the décor : " Straight from the thirties , darling . |
| 3 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 4 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 5 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 6 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 7 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 8 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 9 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
| 10 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 11 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman may not have noted the fact that we continue to encourage the Malawian Government to apply the principles of accountable government that they endorsed at the Harare Heads of Government meeting . |
| 13 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 14 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 15 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 16 | He shouldered into Orcadai , and they struggled at the stair head . |
| 17 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
| 18 | You know maybe a vacuum that needed to be filled by and They looked at the case of the quarry strike and it 's sort of so glaring obvious for men and women all over the country that it 's er really a case of er wo working men and women being erm well being trampled upon really . |
| 19 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 20 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 21 | He had been Form Master of 3A , and they wept at the announcement in Assembly next morning . |
| 22 | ‘ The guards , they showed the paper to me and they pointed at the photograph and said : ‘ He is with us ’ . ’ |
| 23 | And they stood at the door , and of course he come home with his cap in his hand , he said er they said oh what you do how you got on today ? |
| 24 | But er But I 've known that story about the er about them coming up that way and they stayed at the the burnside at Dalvaine . |
| 25 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 26 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 27 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 28 | If they remained at the current 14 per cent rate , they would be £402m . |
| 29 | Well they ran it like that cos they said at the bar we can sell you a bottle of wine for seven pound fifty though , so he said you bugger off he said that , went down the supermarket and get our own like |
| 30 | ‘ You could say that … ’ he began cautiously , and after that Kate ensured the conversation stayed firmly on business rails until they arrived at the hotel which the team used when testing in the south of France . |