Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others . |
| 2 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 3 | Well they took her at the there was a I was gon na give one . |
| 4 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 5 | You know they , they ran , they took the nurses , because the nurses home was a mile or , was it a mile or a mile and a half or something from the hospital , they had this , they took them in the morning and then they took them at lunchtime and then all the different shifts coming on and off they took them , and they had the schools run as well . |
| 6 | Then they dumped him at Markyate , Herts , and gave back his keys — plus £5 for a taxi ride to his looted truck . |