Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 2 | A second , and more interesting , possibility is that subjects are actually recalling the situations in which they personally felt at risk irrespective of any other features of the junction . |
| 3 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 4 | They also looked at waste minimisation and treatment processes . |
| 5 | They also discussed at length the issue of aid for the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | They simply looked at shop windows , stopped at cafes on the fashionable Kudamm Street or visited friends . |