Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They duly arrived at 9.30 in spite of torrential rain , wind , vivid lightning and unusually severe thunder . |
| 2 | For a moment , they merely stared at one another ; then Ross began to walk away . |
| 3 | In a pagan world which was full of gods and where men and women encountered the divine at every turn , there was no need for the mystical disciplines to help people to cultivate a sense of presence and unity : they already felt at one with the world . |
| 4 | They usually operate at 12 volts , but in the darkness of the garden even a low-powered light can seem surprisingly bright . |
| 5 | ‘ They even drive at 60 mph in narrow country lanes . |
| 6 | They then cruised at seventy mph to the cottage , thirty miles along the coast . |
| 7 | And then in the last sort of seven to eight years , it starts to decline quite rapidly because you 're actually paying off the capital at that stage , and th that 's where I may meet somebody at say fifteen years , they thought their mortgage would run to age sixty five and they actually retire at sixty , they 've got five years left and they 're about there . |