Example sentences of "them [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was claimed that soldiers on a British training exercise had been caught by a fearsome ‘ flame weapon ’ which had burned dozens of them alive at the water 's edge . |
| 2 | Victory for the Cherry and Whites could take them clear at the top of the Courage League , if Orrell and Leicester come unstuck . |
| 3 | They were knocked out of the Anglo-Italian Cup by Portsmouth , who beat them two-nil at the Manor . |
| 4 | Town beat them 3-1 at the County Ground in October . |
| 5 | she said Joe would of got them all at the top where you could n't see them and things like that , I said well you wo n't get builders doing that |
| 6 | They had n't checked them all at the time , and then they had forgotten . |
| 7 | It MIGHT make them tired at the end of the season — but the confidence they would gain would more than compensate . |
| 8 | The militants are split between degrees of intransigence , which could make them vulnerable at the polls . |
| 9 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |
| 10 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 11 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 12 | In fact , only one serious relationship lay behind her , with a Wellington actor who read news bulletins in order to eat , and it had died owing to lack of feeling , disappointing them both at the time , but Maria had philosophically absorbed the lesson at the heart of the sad experience . |
| 13 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 14 | The watering hole that 's got them foaming at the mouth . |