Example sentences of "they [vb base] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Meltingly they eat at each other , like two carnivorous ice-creams . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 8 | They appear at any time from mid-summer onwards . |
| 9 | and the they cost at that time the Swatch costed about one thousand three hundred thousand francs and they costed about two thousand eight hundred I think |
| 10 | Later they wait at fussy complications of traffic-lights . |
| 11 | They 're all at a different school all day , and they shop at different times … but you never see them in restaurants and why should n't they be ? |
| 12 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 13 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 14 | Some doctors may even hasten death with the pain-killing drugs they administer at this time , but their ‘ intent to kill ’ or otherwise , is rarely tested in a court . |
| 15 | We might say we perceive them as separate because they vibrate at different frequencies . |
| 16 | She says they bark at all times of day and night . |
| 17 | Must be pretty tough for them when they look at other lasses . ’ |
| 18 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 19 | They look at each other in mutual love and self-giving , a trinity yet together revealing the unity of the Godhead . |
| 20 | Then they look at each other and quickly look away again , trying not to smile . |
| 21 | They look at each other down the aisle . |
| 22 | They look at each other , disappointment tinged with undisguised relief . |
| 23 | and he goes why were you in my , why am I in my underwear seen my pants and he goes ah , here 's a message on my knee and he goes P S Sue Carpenter and they look at each other and they go , Sue Carpenter whoooo and then the mouse traps go off and it ends with them going |
| 24 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 25 | Er , Chairman the , the only advice that I can give Dr on that point is to say that the county council is not letting them down er the funding for major road schemes is provided by central government and we make a contribution towards it but if central government do not give us permission to go ahead with the race road scheme in terms of a grant , then in fact it will not go ahead and in that situation they may be let down , that is their judgement and that should be reflected in the way they vote at parliamentary elections . |
| 26 | They begin at one end of the hall and finish at the other end , the North American steadily retreating , the South American relentlessly advancing . |
| 27 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 28 | They respire at lower levels of light , temperature and tissue moisture than bryophytes or vascular plants , and are protected by dehydration against exhaustion of carbohydrate reserves ( Smith , 1984 ) . |
| 29 | How will the hard men of the IRA react , when they hear at first hand what harm they are doing to everything they say they stand for ? |
| 30 | They drive at good-length balls without getting to the pitch and loft strokes over the heads of the inner ring of fieldsmen . |