Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 2 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 3 | They drove to see him at the Chapel of Repose . |
| 4 | They prepared to launch themselves at the waiting cordon of brawnier , no longer jeering , senior cadets . |
| 5 | It took them what she reported it as soon as the office opened and they 'd done it at about ten twelve time . |
| 6 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 7 | Mr Morraine fetched a net and they began to throw it at him . |
| 8 | To cut a long story short , they did rejoin us at lunch-time , De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty . |
| 9 | In general , to this visiting UK pilot , New Zealand landing and parking charges seemed to be negligible , on those occasions when they bothered to levy them at all . |
| 10 | They preferred to keep themselves at a ‘ safe ’ distance from computers . |
| 11 | A planchette , they had called it at school . |
| 12 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 13 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 14 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 15 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 16 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 17 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 18 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 19 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 20 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 21 | They were constructing a series of weirs upstream , so they had told her at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , which would eventually control this annual predator , but for this year , at least , it surged down irresistibly as ever , biting acres out of its banks as it cornered , like a ferocious animal frustrated . |
| 22 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 23 | All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit . |
| 24 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |
| 25 | As he pressed eagerly forward , his long beard streaming In the wind and rain , two Spanish friars snapped at his heels , still desperately trying to persuade him in Latin to die in the faith ; they continued to exhort him at the stake , where , according to Foxe , he lifted up his eyes to heaven , as he held his offending hand in the fire , and died using the words of Stephen : ‘ Lord Jesus receive my spirit . ’ |
| 26 | They stood watching us at the door . |