Example sentences of "them [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a host in some cheerful tavern , he told them to tether their horses and ushered them in , asking them to sit at the table and wait while he finished his business in his own secret chamber . |
| 2 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 3 | We must let them know at the station , or there will be an awful accident . ’ |
| 4 | She 's gon na take them and do them , get them done at the thing and then take it home . |
| 5 | PC Chris Eden said : ‘ It 's amazing how drivers ’ attitudes change when we ask them to look at the recording . |
| 6 | This was by far London 's worst display and it leaves them rooted at the foot of the European Division with a 1–2 record . |
| 7 | ‘ Let them look at the fire , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The first dazed rabbits came out ; two of them bleeding at the nose , looking otherwise unharmed but staggering , almost -falling . |
| 9 | ‘ The piste is like this , ’ said one of them kicking at the sand . |
| 10 | GRIDIRON : London Monarchs yesterday drew 17–17 with Birmingham Fire to leave them anchored at the bottom of the European Division of the World League . |
| 11 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 12 | Erm , she started really by , well th well there is two of them involved at the time , but they started by reading a book on the subject and really just talking to me about it certainly , because I mean they really did n't understand , you know because food to them is just food , you know it was just some meal they had to eat because they were hungry and they could n't understand why I had got this whole thing completely distorted . |
| 13 | The British people will hold them to account at the election . |
| 14 | them split at the end |
| 15 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 16 | But with the change of rules meaning Warwickshire have to let one of them go at the end of the season , which one will it be ? |
| 17 | On the feet were home-made boots with double tongues : ‘ They were made by the village cobbler and cost fourteen shillings : they 'd last about two years if you got them clumped at the end of the first year . ’ |
| 18 | Ruth poured cornflakes and milk , and ate them sitting at the table where Rachaela drank her coffee . |
| 19 | All four cameras scheduled for use in this episode are positioned on their ‘ A ’ positions , three of them aimed at the set on which the first scene will be acted out . |
| 20 | If you intend to insert subtitles at a later editing stage ( rather than superimposing them live at the time of shooting ) , you will need to reserve space for these on the tape by shooting overlength material which can subsequently be erased and over-recorded by the insert . |
| 21 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 22 | I could n't just have them standing at the back . |
| 23 | Both of them smiled at the device . |
| 24 | Photographs show them beaming at the camera , oddly alike , almost a brother and sister likeness . |
| 25 | They are likely to stay for a long time with one organisation , and indeed many organisations seek to bind them to them by offering fringe benefits , particularly in the form of " loyalty bonuses " to encourage them to return at the start of each new banqueting season . |
| 26 | Battle-weary after the 4 hour 42 minute match , which had finished , it was little wonder that the two of them embraced at the net as 15,000 rose as one to acclaim such magnificent entertainment . |
| 27 | ‘ Virtually all of them jumped at the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the scheme . ’ |
| 28 | It is the life force within us that is the cause of that denial , which makes it impossible for the healthy to imagine a time when it will have faded , which makes them tremble at the thought that , were voluntary euthanasia ever legalized , abuse would inevitably follow , and when they became old and ill , they would be at risk of being put away . |