Example sentences of "[vb past] they at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 2 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 3 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |
| 4 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 5 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 6 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 7 | They told you when you asked them at the club . |
| 8 | Their landlord visited them at the flat to recover back rent . |
| 9 | Well somebody built them at the boat builders in Orkney built some . |
| 10 | Once at Finsbury Park , the cameras caught them at the sound check , in interviews , backstage , and relaxing before the gig . |
| 11 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 12 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 13 | She' took sandwiches and ate them at the school . |
| 14 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 15 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 16 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 17 | They were last seen by a taxi driver who dropped them at the railway station more than 24 hours earlier . |
| 18 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 19 | Told 'em at the Frolic that scurvy Captain 's rooking us … and what 's the answer ? |
| 20 | Luib took the practice sword from him with a nod , and he joined them at the edge of the field . |
| 21 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 22 | Cambridge also contained a strong ‘ republican ’ group at this time , and while there is no proof that Wordsworth joined them at the University we find that he freely associated with ex-Cambridge liberals after his return from France in 1793 . |
| 23 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 24 | ‘ My father and eldest brother established an estate agency and I joined them at the age of 17 . |
| 25 | She indicated the pretty flower-patterned basin for me to wash my hands in , then I joined them at the table . |
| 26 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
| 27 | ‘ So what I did was , I got some stones and threw them at the driver . ’ |
| 28 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |
| 29 | After the final collection of the night , when all the toads had been recorded and marked , we released them at the margin of the lake near the spawn site . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |