Example sentences of "at they [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alec and his colleagues believe the military would laugh at them if they asked for personal protection weapons . |
| 2 | Well we 'll see if there , if there well the jury can have a look at them if they want , certainly if er if neither side think they 're going to be of any assistance then there 's not much point in producing them . |
| 3 | People glanced at them as they went by ; the ugly little scene they 'd played out had not gone unnoticed . |
| 4 | They collided with a labourer , pushing a wheelbarrow of demolition debris , and he swore loudly at them as they scampered away . |
| 5 | Caroline stared at them as they began a rapid , incomprehensible exchange in Malti , sickened by her own feelings of painful rejection . |
| 6 | He fired seven times with the Spencer , taking his time as they came at him , and emptied his Colt revolver at them as they ran . |
| 7 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 8 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 9 | And er now this chap him a wan he he was about ninety and him and his pal , they said , Well we 'll lie in the , there were a lot of bull rushes , we 'll lie in these bull rushes , he says , And we 'll throw bricks at them as they go by , at these two police and er this blackleg . |
| 10 | They looked so filthy and disreputable that a woman walking her dog stopped to stare at them as they straggled wearily across the wide , almost deserted beach . |
| 11 | Brambles caught at them as they slithered down . |
| 12 | His steps were slow , moving to the kennels where the lurchers lived , fastening them to their leads , shouting at them as they leapt up at him in excitement . |
| 13 | Some said they had seen the quizzical , grey-whiskered faces staring up at them as they crouched on the two boards above the refuse pit , peering at the nervous men from beside the walls of the cubicles and showing no apprehension . |
| 14 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 15 | Some grow much better in damp places where the fish could nibble at them when they felt like it or if they needed to — in a similar way to a dog eating grass — and for much the same reason . |
| 16 | One of the white thieves came with a whip , cutting legs , backs , faces ; drawing blood ; roaring at them until they understood he wanted them to stand up . |
| 17 | If the BBC do n't schedule a repeat , I shall wave my stick at them until they do . |