Example sentences of "they [vb past] at a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 32 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 33 | It was impossible to hurry but they moved at a steady pace , pausing seldom . |
| 34 | One behind the other , Grant leading , they moved at a fast walk . |
| 35 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 36 | They trained at a farmhouse in the hills just outside Perugia . |
| 37 | They camped at a kouse ground called Aipadass , west of Camas Prairie , having severed Howard 's supply line . |
| 38 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 39 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait . |
| 40 | They ate at a card-table , which they unfolded and folded again , after . |
| 41 | They ate at a round mahogany table with a stiff white cloth in a dining-room containing much heavy furniture . |
| 42 | They followed the stretcher until they arrived at a large tent which had a hastily painted sign slung across its front . |
| 43 | Then , being prevented from moving into other grazing areas by groups which had developed similar ideas of ownership , and realizing that there were limits to the carrying capacity of the land , they would sell off surplus cattle until they arrived at a perfect balance between the land and the stock residing upon it . |
| 44 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |
| 45 | The second in line to the throne was still known officially as ‘ Baby Wales ’ and it took the couple several days of discussion before they arrived at a name . |
| 46 | They arrived at a very large old house . |
| 47 | They arrived at a place where the river was fast and deep , and Angel started to cross it on the narrow footbridge , still holding Tess . |
| 48 | They arrived at a huge dome . |
| 49 | The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace . |
| 50 | He told Farrel he had no objection if he wanted to take Rose to a discotheque , provided they returned at a reasonable hour . |
| 51 | Camden and Islington councils , meanwhile , have given the Met a free copy of LAFIS — a computer programme which they developed at a cost of £15 million , and sold to other authorities for about £2 million a throw . |
| 52 | They worked at a pitch only experienced in times of disaster such as earthquake or war . |
| 53 | They decided at a meeting of the Labour group of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane yesterday to set up a working group to prepare for a referendum . |
| 54 | Had the two friends discussed her in the way men probably did when they looked at a young woman who passed them in the street ? |
| 55 | Ealhfrith 's personal religious predilections need not necessarily have borne undertones of political dissatisfaction but the differences on ecclesiastical matters between father and son , coming as they did at a time of profound change in Oswiu 's former position of influence in southern England , probably reflected a crisis of potentially serious dimensions . |
| 56 | What they did at a branch on our district erm , again it was just like set up , people were given specific tasks , but at the end of the three month cycle , they 'd change some people , er , those people 's tasks so that they , so they would n't get stagnant , and plus , if one person was off , if you happened to be on holiday , you 've got somebody else that can do the job at the standard and not let the standard fall . |
| 57 | They marched at a tremendous rate in all sorts of uniforms — one of them had amazing cherry-red trousers — and all their clothing was marked with big red patches . |
| 58 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 59 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 60 | On the one hand , it was simply the period required for the sun , moon , and planets to attain the same positions in relation to each other as they had at a given time . |