Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smaller of them seemed to stare at her a moment , then turn to the other and nod . |
| 2 | Both of them turned to look at her . |
| 3 | Why did no one raise the alarm when they failed to arrive at Charmouth ? |
| 4 | This particular America 's cup bears no comparison to the trophy they failed to capture at The Belfry . |
| 5 | They agreed to meet at ten-thirty the following day at the Archdeaconry . |
| 6 | She had n't , and they agreed to meet at seven . |
| 7 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 8 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 9 | His hand under her arm steadied her as they moved to stand at the rail . |
| 10 | They seemed to bend at the knee , setting their feet apart so that they could never be off balance when they moved . |
| 11 | An interim experiment took place in 1981 with tubes of brine shrimp , which are sensitive to changes in the magnetic field : they seemed to cluster at the end of the tube which was nearest the stones . |
| 12 | They seemed to stare at her , examining her face minutely for her reaction . |
| 13 | And they seemed to laugh at her . |
| 14 | Then they came to live at . |
| 15 | And they forgot to knock at the door and make themselves known to the people inside . |
| 16 | The women clucked and tutted as one by one they turned to stare at the tall fourteen year old . |
| 17 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 18 | They arranged to meet at half past four at a village a kilometre or so beyond the cemetery . |
| 19 | They arranged to meet at eleven o'clock the next evening . |
| 20 | Four months : they began to move at four months , that was what the doctor had said . |
| 21 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 22 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
| 23 | ‘ We were very alarmed when Sean told us that they needed to look at you again , and you did n't ring a second time … so we were afraid … . ’ |
| 24 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 25 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 26 | Linda 's family were visiting from Ireland and after visiting Thorpe Park in Surrey , they decided to stop at a pub on the way home . |
| 27 | And they went to live at , and |
| 28 | They went to look at the jewellery piled on a table on the far side of the courtyard . |
| 29 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 30 | That , they went to look at some in |