Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 2 | They just picked you at random ? |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I would n't have minded , but they just threw mine at me when we were kitted out . |
| 4 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 5 | They usually run them at below peak efficiency , they run The Russian reactors they tend to run 'em at maximum efficiency which is you 're very very close to the critical level where it could run away with a little mistake and whoops , you got Chernobyl . |
| 6 | They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill . |
| 7 | They probably did it at the policeman 's ball . |
| 8 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |