Example sentences of "at the [noun] they " in BNC.

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1 Some people have found the level of their pension ‘ frozen ’ at the date they left Britain . )
2 It follows that management 's shares can not be worth more than par value at the date they subscribe .
3 When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans .
4 Though , doubtless , man has always been a jackdaw , a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles , the recognition of ephemera as a legitimate and respectable sphere of collecting is a comparatively modern phenomenon , its devotees now having their own Society and special sales organised by reputable auctioneers who not long ago would have looked down their noses at the trivia they are now , in the name of Mammon , glad to catalogue .
5 At the inquest they said he probably had n't intended to kill himself because he had a return ticket in his pocket .
6 At the top they came out into uncompromising , bright grey light , the bleak , hedgeless lane , the flat meadows where here and there stunted trees squatted like old men in cloaks .
7 At the top they were re-assembled again into the macabre manikin which would house his earth-bound spirit .
8 At the top they came out into a kind of clearing .
9 At the top they emerged into the more inhabited regions , the mirrors at every corridor corner brightly polished and reflecting a pale light .
10 Besides , look at the rations they sell us .
11 The first day at the newspaper they sent me into the darkroom with a roll of film and I think I was in the closet for about five hours before I could figure out how to put it on the reel . ’
12 erm , this is a , a case which er deals with er the issue of the suspension of a measure based upon community law , whether a national court , when a measure has been based upon community law has power to suspend it , now my Lord the er issue in was erm involved er the er decision of er the German government er to give effect to er a community regulation in the sugar sector which er required er that levies should be er obtained from sugar companies , so it was a very direct er implementation of community law erm in that sense different to the matter before your Lordship , but we rely on it by analogy and in , in this case my Lord er you will see it 's in the supplementary bundle of authorities , the extra bundle because , before your Lordship , in that case your Lordship will see er between paragraphs fifteen and thirty three er the er European court indicating that where a measure that has been based upon a community er , er law is challenged before a national court that the national court er should er only er engage in the er , er suspension of such a measure , erm if there is serious doubt er this is erm my Lord er at er paragraph twenty three of the case er and we say that er if you look at the criterions they are not dissimilar from those that have been adopted by the House of Lords as a matter of English law in the case
13 Silas and Matt then set up the barbecue , and Lucy was able to open the two food hampers , her eyes widening at the variety they contained .
14 if she , er , er , no , at the beginning they would of given her treatment or something
15 At the beginning of June , the paper reported that " some of the girls are very indignant at the treatment they are receiving .
16 When a patrol of the Second Field Regiment , the Royal Artillery , arrived at the scene they found nothing .
17 At the court they had made the jewellery for the Imperial eunuchs .
18 For I worked at the council they were trying to make a road there then .
19 It was also important to think what she should wear , for if any of the Governors who had interviewed her only three months ago saw her at the service they would know why she was there .
20 At the Lido they practically had to close the place .
21 In some instances constraints would be imposed indirectly through the imposition of a duty to provide reasons ; in other cases the courts hinted at the limits they would set , such as if the decision was perverse or made in bad faith .
22 Not knowing what else to do ( though now , suddenly , there was an awareness in her of where the burrow lay , point nine of a klick to the south-south-east , and the trail unscrolled before her taking forty-seven metric minutes at the pace they 'd come ) , Jezrael drifted along behind his back .
23 and they keep their reading books from the li their library going at the pace they want to go at
24 He had no ticket and she had a Season , and while he stood in line at the window they missed one train and she rolled her head and her eyes and seemed to think it a joke and when the train came there was one thought only in Millet 's mind .
25 At the window they laughed together and bit a knuckle , like children or housemaids — watching avidly , they saw the two boys get out of a car that could not be Robert 's .
26 My wife kept an open door for them and any time Well at the weekend they 'd Some of them would drop in , you know , for a chat , aye .
27 At the weekend they held a silent vigil in Liverpool .
28 Accommodation should therefore be available both to assist them in the personal adjustments they will have to make and to ensure that at the outset they are suitably accommodated .
29 When they arrive at the centre they start the day with tea/toast and a chat .
30 The last thing when you 're all in , in when you 're all in , and down at the bottom they curve under like that you know , curve under .
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