Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was quite unheard of in the Army for such a small unit to have its own self-designed insignia , but some months later Stirling , quite undismayed , wore his cap badge on parade when General Auchinleck came to inspect them at Kabrit . |
| 2 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 3 | Richard Wiles went to meet them at home . |
| 4 | I got a sun-'n'-sex postcard from Heraklion , worked out which day they 'd be returning , telephoned all possible airlines and went to meet them at Gatwick . |
| 5 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |
| 6 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | She recalled the Jewish woman who had lectured them at Holmsly Manor . |
| 8 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 9 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 10 | It was our local radio station , it said you had to represent them at functions and charity events , it sounded dead good . |
| 11 | The German forces in the area — Prince Rupprecht 's Fourth Army — were commanded by General Sixt von Armin , who had led them at Messines . |
| 12 | Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms ; other had kept them at arms ' length . |
| 13 | The authorities claimed that the bombs were the work of a " terrorist " student group , but the National Union of Students claimed that police paramilitaries had planted them at Santo Domingo University . |