Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to appear at a venue called Litchfields , basically a working men 's club on one of the town 's many estates . |
| 2 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 3 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 4 | The Wolverines ' stock of blast and frag grenades would likewise be of little avail , though since each grenade hardly bulked larger than a coin the Scouts could at least retain their pursefuls of those in case they needed to kill at a distance . |
| 5 | Linda 's family were visiting from Ireland and after visiting Thorpe Park in Surrey , they decided to stop at a pub on the way home . |
| 6 | This is pa at least in part due to the glossy advertising that they 've launched at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds a week . |
| 7 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
| 8 | Henry and Jimmy went off on a 48 hour pass with a couple of nurses they had met at a dance in Cambridge , so , feeling decidedly sour , Rosemary and I went into Cambridge on our own on Christmas Eve . |
| 9 | they had met at a number of police conferences . |
| 10 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 11 | They had stopped at an inn close to Minster Lovell to buy a grand meal and sup a few tankards of ale . |
| 12 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 13 | She wanted to say it was only a joke , about boiling oil , but they had arrived at a building with several steps leading up and told to get into single file so that their names could be checked at the door . |
| 14 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 15 | Surely the fact that teachers are at the ‘ formal operational ’ stage does not mean that they prefer to discuss at an abstract level ! |
| 16 | At the close of the seventeenth century , however , towns and villages in certain industrial regions started to grow , and despite a setback in the 1720s they continued to expand at an astonishing rate throughout each decade of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | Trained staff will then apply what they have learned at a chosen test site , which will be on an island to minimise uncontrollable external intrusions . |
| 18 | As a result , they have arrived at a view which I shall call ‘ concessive ’ holism . |
| 19 | They have arrived at a similar endpoint , from a very different starting point . |
| 20 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 21 | They have looked at a clear historical development , distinct traditions and geographical origins in determining this question , and so far have confirmed that Sikhs , Jews , and Gypsies , but not Rastafarians , are ethnic groups . |
| 22 | The story is that four kings were on a journey to their coronation when , on the way , they wanted to stay at a hotel . |
| 23 | The exploration of the American west revealed many such areas , and efforts to preserve them had begun at an early stage . |