Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Conservatives in the ruling coalition dislike the idea because they fear losses at the polls next year to the far-right Republicans . |
| 2 | According to the Life of Thomas Hardy ‘ they found lodgings at the house of an invalided captain of smacks and ketches ; and Hardy , suspending his house-hunting , settled down for the autumn and winter to finish his fifth novel , The Hand of Ethelberta ’ . |
| 3 | Not only did they monitor landings at the wharf , they also sifted through refuse dumps to find the remains of butchered dolphins , to estimate catches in previous seasons . |
| 4 | The local bands used to play for the morning processions , in the afternoon they played selections at the sports and in the evening they would compete among themselves . |
| 5 | For their third cinematic adventure of the decade ( unless one counts the showing of George V 's funeral ) , they booked tickets at the cinema in Great Malvern to see Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves It turned out to be ‘ first rate … |
| 6 | These results could not be explained by expectations about the effects of influenza or by changes in mood , and they confirm findings at the Medical Research Council Common Cold Unit with experimentally induced illnesses . |
| 7 | Local students were so excited that they threw stones at the painting . |
| 8 | Early one morning , just before the end , they threw grenades at the front of our house . |
| 9 | Top management at TV group Granada face a potentially rough ride when they confront shareholders at the company 's annual meeting today . |
| 10 | do they have patterns at the side ? |
| 11 | ‘ Would they have records at the bookie 's to show you 'd been there , sir ? ’ |
| 12 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |
| 13 | In particular , though I noted that the farmers distinguished between different scientific sources , they credited scientists at the local Institute of Terrestrial Ecology at Merlewood with more openness about the scientific uncertainties . |
| 14 | Police said that they seized knives at the Coronation Street house . |
| 15 | Can they get jobs at the end of it ? |
| 16 | they had the stallions down there then you see , they had stallions at the stud . |
| 17 | They have notches at the sides of the wing covers near the hinges so that the covers can be replaced over the abdomen leaving the wings extended and beating . |
| 18 | Both of them have workshops at the Abbey and are members of what they call a spiritual community there . |