Example sentences of "[noun sg] they have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 2 | At ten past three in the morning they coshed driver Jack Mills , and then uncoupled the engine and lead carriage in a manouvre they 'd practiced at Rail marshalling yards in London . |
| 3 | That had been an awful tea they 'd had at five o'clock ; two slices of bread and fat , a slab of hard cake and a bowl of milk ; then nothing else , only a drink of water , if they wanted one , before they came to bed , and it only half-past seven . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , the younger ones associated the bullies with the violence they had encountered at home : |
| 5 | This is an extension of the scene they had directed at 2 , but they were now all in it . |
| 6 | that before hen they 've got at you . |
| 7 | Boswell and Johnson took this road to Cruden Bay , in order to fulfil an invitation put in train by a lady they had met at worship in Aberdeen on Sunday morning . |
| 8 | That 's National Savings , and to my mind the only good issue they 've got at the moment , and er once you get with index-linked certificates , they were originally the granny bonds that were launched er in the early er late seventies , early eighties . |
| 9 | He and his wife , Doris , live in idyllic surroundings with beautiful views across Weardale in the home they had built at Etherley 40 years ago . |
| 10 | Christie 's were gratified when , on 13 June 1991 , a German transitional commode they had estimated at £250,000 ( DM737,000 ) went for an enormous DM4,682,000 . |
| 11 | Yeah , so they 're paying that off , er I think , I think they 're mad , I really do they only , they only pay a hundred and odd pound a month for this mortgage they 've got at the moment because they bought it , it was only sixteen thousand , well it was cheap it was before the boom |
| 12 | She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together . |
| 13 | The straw hats they 're seen in here are only a fraction of the collection they 've amassed at home . |
| 14 | Leaning against a recumbent Henry Moore , a group of English Sloanes , lanky people , all wearing old men 's panama hats regardless of sex , shared out the single bottle of champagne they had bought at the Duty Free and laughed loudly . |
| 15 | As he said it , he held her eyes and suddenly Ronni was remembering that glass of champagne they 'd shared at the party . |
| 16 | The Parisian populace , displaying its usual unpredictability , was not overly enthusiastic in its reception of the Imperial couple — In contrast , noted Count Hubner , the Austrian Ambassador , with the enthusiasm they had shown at the Te Deum held the previous year to celebrate the coup d'état of 2 December . |
| 17 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 18 | Although he might have decided to forget the way they had clashed at their last meeting , she had no doubt that Luke 's misgivings were still there . |
| 19 | Children came out to play see-saw with an old plank they had found at the roadside . |
| 20 | Mr. S. Walker left a note for the Board of Guardians expressing thanks for their kind and courteous hearing when his group had been interviewed on the subject of the unemployed marchers , and for the treatment they had received at the institution . |
| 21 | The treatment they 've had at the Oxford Rhesus therapy centre has saved her unborn baby 's life . |
| 22 | The British had retreated so far from the position they had held at Chicago that Sir William Hildred and Sir Henry Self , in charge of the British delegation , were afraid that they would be overruled by the Air Ministry and BOAC . |
| 23 | The last time they had met at Oulton Park he had unthinkingly humiliated her , wounding her immature feelings , and the pain had been intense . |
| 24 | It was cold in London compared to the unnatural steamy heat they 'd suffered at the Paul Ricard circuit . |
| 25 | The poet Blaise Cendrars was drawn into the circle , and he , together with Apollinaire , Chagall , and the American painters Bruce and Frost , joined the Delaunays during the summer of 1913 at the house they had rented at Louveciennes . |