Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] them at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 2 | In a nearby village girls of the Mission to the Blind had been settled before the final evacuation ; they continued with their weaving , and a recent army photograph showed them at work at their looms , surrounded by admiring soldiers and villagers . |
| 3 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 4 | Several rioters were killed during an attack on a mill using them at Salford in 1812 , but few manufacturers had as yet introduced them , or were intending to in the near future , and disturbances were intermingled with food riots and political agitation . |
| 5 | Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home . |
| 6 | The law puts them at risk from oncoming forwards and I can see a spate of potentially serious injuries . |
| 7 | When the Sutton route was replaced by trolleybuses , the remainder joined them at Brixton in December 1935 , but the contract with Cohens for their scrapping had already been signed on 12 October . |
| 8 | Nigel started a kind of evening shift , that you was there with your kids during the day and then your husband got them at night and you come out and worked at nights , so it |
| 9 | They want the driver and anyone who saw the accident to contact them at Group 4 Traffic on 051 777 5559 . |
| 10 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |
| 11 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 12 | Undertakers ' men and grave-diggers had to be copiously supplied with liquor to keep them at work , and this added to the disorder and indecency . |
| 13 | Visiting players , Raimundo , the grooms and Alejandro looked at her with ill-concealed lust , but her dead-pan hauteur and Señor Gracias ' large , looming presence kept them at bay . |
| 14 | My voice holds them at bay . |
| 15 | Leeds coach Doug Laughton has already lured former Wigan stars Andy Gregory , Andy Goodway and Ellery Hanley from Central Park and now looks set to try to persuade the 17-stone prop to join them at Headingley . |
| 16 | They rode almost due south , by the Morthwaite foothills and the Eddleston Water to Peebles , then westwards up Tweed to that river 's great bend southwards at Broughton , and so on towards its source on Tweedsmuir , darkness halting them at Oliver , where they learned that its lord , Sir Simon Fraser , had already departed likewise for Lochmaben , in strength . |
| 17 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 18 | I tell you what your dad 's taken us to playschool to show them at play school wo n't you ? |
| 19 | Maybe Gloucester just do n't have the spending power to keep them at Kingsholm . |
| 20 | She almost walked right past the tent , then saw the statue of her mother and brought the sad remains of her son to lay them at Tallis 's feet . |
| 21 | It is surprising in a way that we remember these things , for those of us living off Greenwich Mean Time witnessed them at hours well past our normal bedtime . |