Example sentences of "them at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Nurses volunteer their services when they wish to work and managers engage them at the times required . |
2 | Before this age parents can be given ideas about encouraging children to go to the lavatory before going to bed , and waking them at the parents ' bedtime so providing another chance to empty their bladder . |
3 | He looked by the way from the most of them , playing up with them at the games and did the up there . |
4 | Raise both legs in the air , crossing them at the ankles ; bend your legs a little . |
5 | He stretched out his long legs and crossed them at the ankles . |
6 | And er I remembering Dad , once he bought a cherry tree , and went up to get all these here cherries off the trees , and when we got them we used to wipe them and put them in a bag , and sell them at the fairs . |
7 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
8 | ‘ What did you tell them at the paperworks ? ’ |
9 | ‘ Go on , Jim , for Christ 's sake , or we 'll lose them at the lights . ’ |
10 | yeah people have seen them at the discos and , will do , and er even , even those that gives patterns or designs people are buying , have in the house now instead of watching television , sit and watch the pattern on the wall er , but erm |
11 | They were laughing and talking and putting black square things to their faces , pointing them at the eagles , and clicking them . |
12 | Do n't throw them at the windows . |
13 | The rules began by clarifying the ‘ special advisory committees ’ for juveniles and spelt out in some detail the procedures for registering them at the exchanges . |
14 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
15 | to see them at the Dinosaurs Alive and then they went to the museum . |
16 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
17 | Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory . |
18 | We treat older people as a group and set them at the margins of society . |
19 | The little pulls of wind playing with the leaves were getting stronger now , shaking the petals from the wild roses and throwing them at the diners as if they were confetti . |
20 | He met them at the gates of the airfield ( still a debris of contractors ' equipment surrounded by barbed wire ) and informed them gravely that if they entered — no difficult matter — they would be breaking the law . |
21 | We shall fight them at the gates . |
22 | Mountain Rescue get little trouble from ramblers , since their rambles rarely take them off a bus route , and you can sometimes spot them at the sides of the road , gazing into a hedgerow as their leader tells them a little about the history of couch grass . |