Example sentences of "they [vb past] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 2 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 3 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |
| 4 | They stopped at the modern bungalow that was the home and office of the local police constable . |
| 5 | They stopped at the Three Tuns tavern to ensure their horses had been well stabled . |
| 6 | They stopped at the balustraded terrace overlooking the small lake , and leaned over ; below , enormous golden fish lay around in the green water . |
| 7 | They stopped at the biggest hotel in the town , and went in to their rooms . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time . |
| 9 | They gaped at the massive columns and passed on . |
| 10 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 11 | " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them . |
| 12 | In the event , although both Charitable Trust and Council had given assent to the first advert on the policy agreed , they baulked at the second wave of recruiting , and sought to change the basis of our agreement . |
| 13 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 14 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 15 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 16 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 17 | When they arrived at the temporary mortuary they halted outside . |
| 18 | Later , dozens of people were waiting to greet the couple when they arrived at the new £4m British Embassy building . |
| 19 | They arrived at the sliding door entrance to the bridge . |
| 20 | It was late when they arrived at the old house and by tacit consent they went straight to bed . |
| 21 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They arrived at the same time ! ’ |
| 23 | Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting . |
| 24 | Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 25 | Barriers had to be put around their pictures when they exhibited at the Royal Academy to protect them from the crowds of ardent devotees ; reproductions of their works were sold in their tens of thousands . |
| 26 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 27 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 28 | They stared at the flat blade of rock jutting out of the turf-clad flank of the hill . |
| 29 | They stared at the wrecked car . |
| 30 | They stared at the dead sheep for a few seconds longer , then went back to the van . |