Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took them what she reported it as soon as the office opened and they 'd done it at about ten twelve time . |
| 2 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 3 | A planchette , they had called it at school . |
| 4 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 5 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 6 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 7 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 8 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 9 | They were constructing a series of weirs upstream , so they had told her at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , which would eventually control this annual predator , but for this year , at least , it surged down irresistibly as ever , biting acres out of its banks as it cornered , like a ferocious animal frustrated . |
| 10 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 11 | Most of them had seen her at meetings or heard of her in connection with the ICO . |
| 12 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 13 | Neither of them had liked him at all . |