Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 2 | and they sell at fifty four pence |
| 3 | He lifted his head , and they looked at one another . |
| 4 | Department managers , new checkouts , do all the bits and pieces on , and wanted me to do , while I wait for the shift to come in , and they start at seven . |
| 5 | And they smiled at one another , collusively , captivated by this broad new concept of social vengeance , and began to plan their guest list : they owed hospitality to half London , they agreed , it was time for a party , it would kill many birds with one big stone . |
| 6 | The 78 women at Avdel Systems in Welwyn Garden City , Herts , said they faced losing 20 per cent of their pensions if they retired at 60 . |
| 7 | You could have somebody on twenty five , who when they 're twenty six er , contracting a debilitating disease , never goes back to work , and we pay their premiums until they die at sixty . |
| 8 | She and Corrie were allowed to play while the other children attended lessons in alphabets and multiplication tables , but they sat at one end of the long playroom like wilting flowers , still too unhappy at their uprooting to do anything . |
| 9 | There was a brief , deep silence , while they looked at one another and weighed possibilities . |
| 10 | George Wing had been with Hay ever since they met at 1660 Heavy Bomber Conversion Unit . |
| 11 | when they shut at three you know four |
| 12 | It 's no good expecting your child to let you know where he or she is and then get hopping mad when they ring at three in the morning . |
| 13 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 14 | There was a long , emotionally charged silence as they stared at one another , before he began to roughly shrug the jacket from his broad shoulders . |
| 15 | There was a pause as they looked at one another and adjusted their minds to the needs of conversation . |
| 16 | There was a silence as they glared at one another across the coffee-table . |
| 17 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |