Example sentences of "they [vb past] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 3 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 6 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 9 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 10 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 11 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |
| 12 | They met at a dance . |
| 13 | Helena Lisandrello says she had an affair with the actor after they met at a party in 1979 . |
| 14 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 15 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 16 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 17 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 18 | They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city . |
| 19 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 20 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 21 | Together they gazed at the family portraits and Miss Hatherby pointed out the niceties of her forefathers ' dress — ‘ Folk would literally kill for shoe buckles of that quality . |
| 22 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 23 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 24 | ‘ They lived at a place called the Half House . |
| 25 | SINGER Cher and her Bon Jovi guitarist toyboy Richie Sambora , right , fuelled rumours of a wedding as they hugged at a London party . |
| 26 | They loitered at the front of the house , at the garden corner , sharp angle of white stone , and scowled at one another . |
| 27 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 28 | They agreed at a meeting in Edinburgh yesterday to urge the Government to seek changes in legislation so that tenants who have bought their homes with the benefit of a discount are debarred from buying council houses with similar concessions on a second or more occasions . |
| 29 | But they agreed at a meeting on Saturday that they would take whatever steps were necessary to protect their colliery . |
| 30 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |