Example sentences of "they [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 2 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 3 | We must let them know at the station , or there will be an awful accident . ’ |
| 4 | His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time . |
| 5 | She 's gon na take them and do them , get them done at the thing and then take it home . |
| 6 | PC Chris Eden said : ‘ It 's amazing how drivers ’ attitudes change when we ask them to look at the recording . |
| 7 | The allegation of the defence had to be met and properly dealt with , so the matter would be returned to the justices for them to look at the circumstances and come to a proper determination after they had heard further evidence . |
| 8 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 9 | A notice apologising for keeping visitors waiting and inviting them to look at the booklets adds the finishing touch . |
| 10 | This was by far London 's worst display and it leaves them rooted at the foot of the European Division with a 1–2 record . |
| 11 | ‘ Let them look at the fire , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The first dazed rabbits came out ; two of them bleeding at the nose , looking otherwise unharmed but staggering , almost -falling . |
| 13 | ‘ The piste is like this , ’ said one of them kicking at the sand . |
| 14 | GRIDIRON : London Monarchs yesterday drew 17–17 with Birmingham Fire to leave them anchored at the bottom of the European Division of the World League . |
| 15 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 16 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 17 | The British people will hold them to account at the election . |
| 18 | them split at the end |
| 19 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 20 | But with the change of rules meaning Warwickshire have to let one of them go at the end of the season , which one will it be ? |
| 21 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 22 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 23 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 24 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 25 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 26 | They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city . |
| 27 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 28 | Together they gazed at the family portraits and Miss Hatherby pointed out the niceties of her forefathers ' dress — ‘ Folk would literally kill for shoe buckles of that quality . |
| 29 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 30 | They loitered at the front of the house , at the garden corner , sharp angle of white stone , and scowled at one another . |