Example sentences of "they [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 2 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |
| 5 | They met at a dance . |
| 6 | Helena Lisandrello says she had an affair with the actor after they met at a party in 1979 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
| 17 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 18 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ They lived at a place called the Half House . |
| 21 | SINGER Cher and her Bon Jovi guitarist toyboy Richie Sambora , right , fuelled rumours of a wedding as they hugged at a London party . |
| 22 | They loitered at the front of the house , at the garden corner , sharp angle of white stone , and scowled at one another . |
| 23 | They grin at the idea , crinkling their noses in mock distaste , suggesting that the monastic life holds no attraction for them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But they agreed at a meeting on Saturday that they would take whatever steps were necessary to protect their colliery . |
| 27 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |
| 28 | In a significant move forward towards the establishment of a non-racial democracy , they agreed at the end of three days of talks in Cape Town to take a common stand on two important issues when multi-party constitutional talks resume : power sharing in a future democratic system and regional government . |
| 29 | ‘ And they said they was just farmers , like us , ’ mused Jonadab , as they rode at a walk through the high arched entrance and into the stable-yard . |
| 30 | They rode at a gentle trot . |