Example sentences of "they [vb past] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Isabelle had n't wanted them found at all , had intended her secret , whatever it was , to die with her . |
| 2 | The three of them looked at each other , and Husband said cautiously : ‘ If you say a matter of hours , you do mean tonight ? ’ |
| 3 | They gazed at each other like a pair of fools . |
| 4 | They gazed at each other in silence , then Penry touched a finger to her lower lip . |
| 5 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 6 | They argued at that time that pedestrian crossings of railways were perfectly safe . |
| 7 | They pecked at some dead creature on the moorland verge , squabbling over which of them should have it , wheeling and darting at each other like terrible shadows in the mist . |
| 8 | They leered at each other , then tittupped down the polished wood of the stairs , clutching the banisters . |
| 9 | The articles were quite big at first , then got smaller until they were maybe only one or two paragraphs long , then they stopped at all . |
| 10 | The other is that they were Christians but they received at this point more of the Holy Spirit , they were filled with the Spirit ‘ as at the beginning . ’ |
| 11 | Last year was the first time they played at that level , while Scotland , England and Wales have been involved in ‘ international friendlies ’ for a number of years . |
| 12 | Beside him Carol watched the modern-day gladiators as they came at each other . |
| 13 | While men like Thomas Howard , Duke of Norfolk , and Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester , were prepared to accept the royal supremacy , they baulked at these evangelical reforms , which in their view smacked of heresy and threatened to lead England into the Lutheran camp . |
| 14 | And they nodded at each other , for all the world , Isobel thought , like a pair of well-fed penguins . |
| 15 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 16 | Gombrich sombrely recalled hearing about Auschwitz while working at the BBC Monitoring Service during the war : ‘ They claimed at that time — I remember that as if it were yesterday — they claimed that at least five million people had been killed , and I remember a colleague of mine coming to me to check this figure , because it seemed impossible . |
| 17 | If they differed at all , the differences would seem to have resided only in their membership — in specific individuals or personalities . |
| 18 | This was especially so with people who were likely to borrow large sums of money , if they borrowed at all . |
| 19 | They yelled at each other until the car passed erratically between the electric gates of the elegant , much photographed Lewis home and came to a halt on the gravel before the porch . |
| 20 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 21 | I suppose the main reason was that I was so astonished to find that they existed at all . |
| 22 | While other constitutional texts , where they existed at all , have for long periods been purely notional , national autonomy never ceased to have a certain operation reality . |
| 23 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 24 | They grinned at each other like conspirators . |
| 25 | As they jolted along they grinned at each other , letting out little exaggerated groans of pain every time the unsprung wheels hit a bump in the road . |
| 26 | They grinned at each other . |
| 27 | They glanced at each other , and the same recognition struck them both . |
| 28 | He nodded and there followed an awkward silence where Julie and Nina must have become aware of the tension , for they glanced at each other at the same moment as a patient arrived in the centre . |
| 29 | There was silence as they glanced at each other , and Sophie said irritably , ‘ It 's exactly as I said . |
| 30 | They seemed to look through and beyond him and to focus — if they focused at all — on something infinitely remote . |