Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 2 | They say they are looking forward to seeing him soon , and that he will be safely with them to sit down at the table and enjoy the feast of the next Thanksgiving dinner . |
| 3 | A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge . |
| 4 | She used the cry of her voice to draw them to her , allowing them first to fly away and then encouraging them to swoop back at the height of their arc of flight . |
| 5 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 6 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 7 | When they were long enough , he intended to curl them and allow them to extend down at the sides of his mouth . |
| 8 | They let them surge out at the gate and shake themselves loose of restraint to take their several ways . |
| 9 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 10 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |
| 11 | Brother Cadfael was just emerging from the door of the infirmary in mid-morning , after replenishing Brother Edmund 's stores in the medicine cupboard , when they rode in at the gatehouse before his eyes . |
| 12 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 13 | They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply . |
| 14 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 15 | In fact , all our theories of science are formulated on the assumption that space-time is smooth and nearly flat , so they break down at the big bang singularity , where the curvature of space-time is infinite . |
| 16 | ‘ I see , ’ said Doyle softly as they came out at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 17 | They passed the greengrocer with his window full of apples and oranges , and the butcher with bloody lumps of meat on display and naked chickens hanging up , and the small bank , and the grocery store and the electrical shop , and then they came out at the other side of the village on to the narrow country road where there were no people any more and very few motor-cars . |
| 18 | It was a relief that he did not try to speak , and when they came out at the landscaped clearing with its wooden bench seat overlooking the water she had readied herself to speak first . |
| 19 | At Portsmouth , Crabb was met by a local MI6 officer , using the cover name ‘ Bernard Smith ’ , and together they booked in at the Sallyport Hotel where ‘ Smith ’ gave his address as ‘ c/o Foreign Office , London ’ . |
| 20 | When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base . |
| 21 | And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire . |
| 22 | When they arrived back at the Incident Room the little printer was locking up for the night . |
| 23 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 24 | The bells rang out for the first time just a day after they arrived back at the church . |
| 25 | They climbed in at the front and gradually worked their way down to the back . |
| 26 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |
| 27 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 28 | Mr Smith said : ‘ I cried when they turned up at the frontier . |
| 29 | They turned in at the yard of a two-storey stone house which had a red tiled roof . |
| 30 | Nobody listens but instead they stare out at the countryside , the classic English landscape . |