Example sentences of "and they [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shouldered into Orcadai , and they struggled at the stair head . |
| 2 | You know maybe a vacuum that needed to be filled by and They looked at the case of the quarry strike and it 's sort of so glaring obvious for men and women all over the country that it 's er really a case of er wo working men and women being erm well being trampled upon really . |
| 3 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 4 | There are three Wraithwisps for each adventurer , and they appear at the rate of four per round . |
| 5 | They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it . |
| 6 | What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth . |
| 7 | The bark starts them all off and they howl at the moon for a few minutes . |
| 8 | He had been Form Master of 3A , and they wept at the announcement in Assembly next morning . |
| 9 | ‘ The guards , they showed the paper to me and they pointed at the photograph and said : ‘ He is with us ’ . ’ |
| 10 | And they stood at the door , and of course he come home with his cap in his hand , he said er they said oh what you do how you got on today ? |