Example sentences of "[verb] them [adv] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The human race is eating them up at a staggering rate . |
| 2 | ‘ So as they can whip them off at a moment 's notice ! ’ he hissed . |
| 3 | Rather they preferred to farm them out at a fixed rent , at leases which , in the fourteenth century , became progressively longer , and to enjoy the freedom to take up offices or to serve in the army . |
| 4 | We meet them here at a party given by Ella and Dimity . |
| 5 | Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen . |
| 6 | The shares will have been borrowed and sold in the hope and expectation of buying them back at a lower price . |
| 7 | Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said . |
| 8 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |