Example sentences of "[vb past] at their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel doors rose at their rear ends and heavily ammed men dropped to the ground . |
| 2 | Again , as early as 1969 , it was Glenn Gould who , having seen some of the early Karajan/ Clouzot films of orchestral and choral music , rejoiced at their imaginative refutation of what he called the ‘ proscenium psychology ’ . |
| 3 | Nothing memorable happened at their only meeting , in a Gloucestershire sanatorium , though Malcolm Muggeridge once remarked that he would have loved to see and hear them together , and it is still open to anyone to write an imaginary conversation of the event . |
| 4 | Purism was an exercise in reason and even the Dadaists arrived at their apparent absurdities by a process of rational thought . |
| 5 | They certainly did n't realise for the length of that trip that they were travelling with another stallion , and the horses arrived at their new home safely . |
| 6 | The realisation that the transition from exclusion to inclusion is a slow manoeuvre and that community care evolves rather than happens became clear soon after Elizabeth and Helen arrived at their new home . |
| 7 | The kind of material which members of the Graduate Association enjoyed at their weekly meetings was best exemplified by a Jewish intelligence report of a lecture given by the IFL vice-president H.H. Beamish in 1937 , entitled ‘ National Socialism ( Racial Fascism ) in Practice in Germany ’ , which appeared to have been fairly typical of his beliefs . |
| 8 | The noise of wheels on uneven roads mingled with the voices of the elite as they alighted at their respective destinations and made their slow and stately way into the houses which had lights in every room from attic to cellar . |
| 9 | Wonderful Members of Parliament , who , little more than twenty years before , had made themselves merry with the wild railroad theories of engineers , and given them the liveliest rubs in cross-examination , went down into the north with their watches in their hands , and sent on messages before by the electric telegraph , to say that they were coming Night and day the conquering engines rumbled at their distant work , or advancing smoothly to their journey 's end , and gliding like tame dragons into the allotted corners grooved out to the inch for their reception , stood bubbling and trembling there , making the walls quake , as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers yet unsuspected in them , and strong purposes not yet achieved . |
| 10 | Willie stared at their silent silhouettes in the darkness , for what seemed an eternity . |
| 11 | What the Russians thought of their rough but kindly guide it is impossible to say ; but he grinned , and exclaimed in amazement as he tried in vain , with a stumpy pencil to get a list of their names , and then sympathetically remarked , as he looked at their wan faces , ‘ There is no wonder at the chaps being ill ; even their names is all coughs and sneezes ’ . |
| 12 | No longer were they able to allow for unforeseen problems so they looked at their traditional contracts for any opportunity for reimbursement of additional costs . |
| 13 | If , in addition , we had a similar frequency count of another property , say level of income , and looked at their mutual distribution , their covariation in a word , we can see how strongly the two properties , the two variables , are related . |
| 14 | Jack looked at their terrified eyes and then down at the computer screen . |
| 15 | They both looked at their younger brothers and sisters , who stared blankly back . |
| 16 | He looked at their sceptical faces as if seeking support . |
| 17 | This will often happen when counsellees have placed blame on other people and not looked at their own contribution to their problems . |
| 18 | And if you went to General Accident and looked at their actuarial tables , they might be slightly different to other groups , but in that sense |
| 19 | It bit at their numb bodies they did not resist |
| 20 | Eventually , the bloody turf wars ceased , and for a long time the authorities either winked at their illegal trade or even helped themselves to the till . |
| 21 | She knew as little about him now , his parents , his life , as she had at their first meeting . |
| 22 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 23 | She said at their Welsh home : ‘ He 's a tough lad . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're naturally very upset , ’ she said at their converted barn home in Hawkhurst , Kent . |
| 25 | Both looked well pleased after hours of hard drinking and glowered at their sober master 's harsh strictures to leave their ale and go back through the pouring rain to King 's Steps and another unpleasant journey along the Thames . |
| 26 | Cromer cherished the thought that he ‘ remained more or less hidden [ and ] pulled the strings ’ , and proclaimed his contempt for publicity ; yet it was he of whom the fellahin sang as they laboured at their immemorial tasks . |
| 27 | But they stood at their rickety table in the cold gathering signatures . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's something wrong with this house , ’ Hugh said when they sat at their muted dinner . |
| 29 | They sat at their favourite table overlooking a pond to one side , covered with clusters of red and white water-lilies in full bloom , and the sea on the other . |
| 30 | They nosed at their deep straw , sampled the hay , straddled out their legs and peed , then settled their noses into the food buckets , which Mr Bean and Nutty between them had prepared . |