Example sentences of "they [vb base] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meltingly they eat at each other , like two carnivorous ice-creams . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They appear at any time from mid-summer onwards . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 7 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 10 | They look at each other in mutual love and self-giving , a trinity yet together revealing the unity of the Godhead . |
| 11 | Then they look at each other and quickly look away again , trying not to smile . |
| 12 | They look at each other down the aisle . |
| 13 | They look at each other , disappointment tinged with undisguised relief . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They begin at one end of the hall and finish at the other end , the North American steadily retreating , the South American relentlessly advancing . |
| 17 | You know if they think they can do just as they like at that age , well I mean er the , the |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Freezing fog and still they drive at high speed . |
| 20 | They grasp at each other with numbed fingers for the comfort of touch . |
| 21 | Your own death : If they are honest , most people are not so much afraid of being dead as they are of the way they arrive at that state . |
| 22 | ( They smile at each other . ) |
| 23 | They smile at each other . |
| 24 | They Near at any rate . |
| 25 | One ‘ unofficial ’ source told me ‘ the club did nt mind what went on with young Ryan on away trips — after all they were roommates and what roommates do — well they do at this club anyway — but Sir Matt 's dog ! |
| 26 | They start at nine foot diameter . |
| 27 | They laugh at fetching Tamsin . |
| 28 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 29 | They sometimes have problems with the control of their dentures when eating certain types of food , and some have slight difficulties with swallowing as the muscles get weaker ( or if they have at some time suffered a small stroke ) , so they dislike being watched . |
| 30 | Many of these anxieties arise because women do not understand and can not control the physical changes which they experience at this time . |