Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it . |
| 2 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 3 | The worse thing is when it gets in your eye when they put it on at the hairdressers after ugh |
| 4 | Handed them out at the Police Station ! |
| 5 | In the Fens , mothers abandoned their children ‘ swimming in their beds , till good people , adventuring their lives , went up to the breast in the waters to fetch them out at the windows ’ . |
| 6 | They tug at their hair , pulling it out at the roots , roll around the floor and bang their heads against the wall . |
| 7 | He would drop it off at the police station when he was well enough . |
| 8 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 9 | I needed you so badly and all you ever did to me was cut me down at the knees . ’ |
| 10 | And I 've got all these other pills I meant to bring them out and hand them in at the chemists |