Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 2 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 3 | Other protestors , including the Cleveland-based Neon , also gave details of the evidence they intend to give at the inquiry . |
| 4 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 5 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 6 | If not , he argues , players should be able to opt for another country if — like John Gallagher or the Samoans playing in the All Black trials — they want to play at the highest level regardless of country . |
| 7 | His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail . |
| 8 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 9 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 10 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 11 | It is clear that computer designers need the chemists ' understanding of the physical and chemical properties of silicon and the III-Vs and the rules under which they seem to operate at the atomic and molecular levels . |
| 12 | The women clucked and tutted as one by one they turned to stare at the tall fourteen year old . |
| 13 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 14 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
| 15 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 16 | Linda 's family were visiting from Ireland and after visiting Thorpe Park in Surrey , they decided to stop at a pub on the way home . |
| 17 | They went to look at the jewellery piled on a table on the far side of the courtyard . |
| 18 | It was Bizet 's Carmen they went to hear at the Opera . |
| 19 | If they chose to quarrel at the tops of their voices , that was their business . |
| 20 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
| 21 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 23 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 24 | Of course they had to stop at the nearest tavern for Sir John to take refreshment and S over his sword play , step by step , blow by blow . |
| 25 | But there was plenty of time , and they had to wait at the other end of the tunnel . |
| 26 | They had so many men they had to start at the other end and |
| 27 | Surely the fact that teachers are at the ‘ formal operational ’ stage does not mean that they prefer to discuss at an abstract level ! |
| 28 | At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 29 | The players , who already knew the value of the advertising dollar , were endlessly pumped onto the television advertisements ( most of them in soft focus ) as they mouthed clichés and manufactured statements about what they hoped to do at the World Cup . |
| 30 | The characteristic feature of neo-classical theory is its analytical device of equilibrium — a state of affairs in which all participants in the market can not make themselves better off by changing the quantities of goods and services they wish to trade at the prevailing prices . |