Example sentences of "they [vb past] at [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These signals may have been less predictive of the outcome because they occurred at higher frequencies at earlier stages in the conflicts . |
| 3 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 4 | The force of the blow pushed them apart , and they arrived at opposite walls simultaneously , kicked again , and met once more in the centre . |
| 5 | When they arrived at Green Gables , Marilla came to the door to meet them . |
| 6 | They landed at 0600 hours , unopposed by a German garrison satiated on Christmas fare ; the commando planners picking times for a strike force to land when the enemy were likely to be off-guard . |
| 7 | The faults of their guns drove the French aces into a frenzy ; in the air , they jammed at critical moments ; on landing , they had a nasty habit of firing unexpectedly , often shooting up ground crews . |
| 8 | Because it was sound sense to do so , they looked at other properties for sale . |
| 9 | They looked at such things as whether if then relationships between clauses were present or absent , and also changed the order of several sentences . |
| 10 | They looked at 146 refrigerators and freezers in Darlington last week to find out which ones were on a recommended list of ecologically sound iceboxes . |
| 11 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 12 | They talked of hereditary occupations in the Highlands ; the rigour of church rules and creeds ; they looked at Latin books , and tiptoed around a delicate matter — whether Johnson the Anglican might wish to hear Mr MacAulay say their Presbyterian prayers in the household , which Boswell doubted . |
| 13 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 14 | The collapse of Japanese authority was followed by the emergence throughout Korea of ‘ people 's committees ’ ; they appeared at various levels — province , city , county and village . |
| 15 | The Webbs explain that their original definition , relating the trade unions ' function to conditions of employment , implied that trade unions had always contemplated a perpetual continuance of the capitalist or wage system , whereas they had at various dates during the past century at any rate frequently had aspirations towards a revolutionary change in social and economic conditions . |
| 16 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 17 | They sat at separate tables and waited until the band started its last set with a synthesised pastiche of Hello Dolly . |
| 18 | Tight-lipped , she drove in silence , keeping her eyes firmly on the road , but as they sat at red traffic-lights waiting for them to change she could n't keep silent any longer . |
| 19 | Whenever they came to meetings at the department they sat at opposite ends of the table . |
| 20 | They sat at different places in the room , most of them also with drinks cradled in their hands . |