Example sentences of "at [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | See lot lot of these jobs are done by the tide , say you take a ship now what 's been sunk in the river , at low tide they 'll put the wires underneath , make them fast to the ships and when the tide when the t t tide rise out come the ship , and they can take it where they want to . |
| 2 | At low altitude they work like conventional jets , switching to rocket power on the edge of space . |
| 3 | NOT content with this one , at Beamish Museum they 're planning to re-create the Houghton-le-Spring by-election of March 18 1913 . |
| 4 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 5 | At each village they came to Murtach halted the company and paused to talk to the headman . |
| 6 | Chuck peered intently at each girl they passed , but without exception they avoided his gaze . |
| 7 | At each visit they will feel your abdomen , and find out how high the top of the womb has risen . |
| 8 | At each barge they ran down boarding planks for us , sat us on a long bench by the wheel and set about producing tea . |
| 9 | I told you I went and looked that up not long ago , things at that price they only guarantee them for six months . |
| 10 | I want to look at that stuff they 've got over there . |
| 11 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 12 | They are so vulnerable at that age they will go away with anybody . ’ |
| 13 | The thing is at that age they often do n't get severe punishment cos they 'll got to either a special place |
| 14 | At that moment they are living in a monothematic world limited to one thought : to attain the goal they are fighting for . |
| 15 | They were only three words but at that moment they were as pertinent as the universe . |
| 16 | He looked as if he were about to turn on his aunty as well , but at that moment they were interrupted by a clatter and a crash and the wail of a child . |
| 17 | At that moment they both heard the bang of the basement 's front door . |
| 18 | At that moment they reached the ruined abbey and she fell silent at its sheer beauty . |
| 19 | She did not answer him because at that moment they came to her house . |
| 20 | Robbie was terribly tempted to ask how he would describe the glamorous-looking Petula , so perhaps it was just as well that at that moment they came in sight of the first lock . |
| 21 | Willi looked very dubious , but at that moment they heard voices in the lobby outside . |
| 22 | Charity opened her mouth to say that a Mercedes was really not on her list of aspirations , but at that moment they approached a sharp twist in the path and were almost knocked over by an electric golf cart careening around it . |
| 23 | At that point they will still have 735 pages of text to go . |
| 24 | Presumably what he means is that at that point they will have lost their representative character and become embodiments of the divine . |
| 25 | At that point they cease to serve their purpose and then are fit only to be discarded . |
| 26 | He took Adam on to Sudbury for him to catch a train there and at that point they parted . |
| 27 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 28 | Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October |
| 29 | This would hardly have been necessary if at that time they were in a position to dictate the policy and actions of the association . |
| 30 | At that time they were faced with legal fees of £3,000 if they sued the surveyor , and the risk of losing this as well if they could not prove the surveyor 's negligence in law . |