Example sentences of "they [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were big baskets of flowers everywhere and waitresses were giving everyone sparkly drinks and asking them to sit at long tables in the dining room . |
| 2 | I thought it particularly nice of them to write at such length , as I had mistakenly called Roy Griffiths Mister ! |
| 3 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 4 | For all her encouragement to them to come at any time to her house , Rose herself was wary of calling at Great Meadow . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I might find them laughing at poor Daddy , ’ Rose said , allowing her own shock and fear to ease out in the nervous laughter , but Maggie 's face remained pale and serious . |
| 6 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 7 | I could imagine them looking at each other . |
| 8 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 9 | And that I , I would n't be adverse , I know it means you know you , you , if you put s some extra into one thing you 've got to take it away from somewhere else , but I , I , I would be quite happy to see them look at special needs and whether we actually need even more careers officer time for that . |
| 10 | The Air Force , again for reasons of cost , wants them based at existing missile sites in Wyoming , whence they would flee when a crisis loomed . |
| 11 | If you present someone with a set of stripes on a TV screen and make them move at right angles to their long axis , that is the direction in which the person will see them move . |
| 12 | There followed a silence in which Agnes imagined them glaring at each other . |
| 13 | The three of them looked at each other , and Husband said cautiously : ‘ If you say a matter of hours , you do mean tonight ? ’ |
| 14 | She was n't in the mood to cope with Kegan 's heavy playfulness , the sort of labored gallantry he produced whenever they met at official hospital functions . |
| 15 | They gazed at each other like a pair of fools . |
| 16 | They gazed at each other in silence , then Penry touched a finger to her lower lip . |
| 17 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 18 | Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm |
| 19 | They lived at 3 Windmill Street , Lad Lane , Deansgate , where William was born . |
| 20 | Brother and sister were not therefore reunited until later in that year when they lived at Windy Brow , Keswick — ‘ We find our own food . |
| 21 | ‘ What do they make at this place ? ’ asks the disapproving Greek matriarch when her grandson returns from work . |
| 22 | Meltingly they eat at each other , like two carnivorous ice-creams . |
| 23 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 24 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 25 | They argued at that time that pedestrian crossings of railways were perfectly safe . |
| 26 | They attacked at first light , their generals having made exactly the same mistake as ours the day before . |
| 27 | They leered at each other , then tittupped down the polished wood of the stairs , clutching the banisters . |
| 28 | This is not to say that the right and left are necessarily the same , but rather that they converge at key points and share an understanding of what is involved in the politics of ‘ race ’ . |
| 29 | A slightly more realistic approach recognizes that firms have life-cycles and that during different stages in their life-cycles they grow at different rates . |
| 30 | The tranquil white-washed villages were a welcome relief and they stopped at small bars and quenched their thirst with local wine and spring water . |