Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every single one of them turned round at that meeting and said , will you go and beat the out of that government for what they 're doing to us . |
| 2 | They got up at five , leaving us alone but asleep , and returned by eight o'clock . |
| 3 | He says they got up at four in the morning and went to their parishes in all weathers . |
| 4 | They came out at last and Haile Selassie went forward under a crimson canopy to show himself to his people . |
| 5 | But Jim really hurt her because erm when she was going out with him he was a virgin and then erm they came back , you notice things were a bit sort of sort of on the rocks when they came back at first ? |
| 6 | It looked good for the cherry and whites , as they turned round at half time with an 8-0 lead . |
| 7 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 8 | The pilot agreed and together they took off at 1047 hrs . |
| 9 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 10 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 11 | Oh they went down at ten ? |
| 12 | And the hours er the early that 's what they called the early men they went in at one o'clock . |
| 13 | They knew quite as much about human nature at the Foreign Office as they did down at any police station . |
| 14 | They sat down at one of the tables . |
| 15 | Graham asked as they sat down at one of the few vacant tables . |