Example sentences of "they have [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | they had met at a number of police conferences . |
| 4 | Once they had to stop at a red light , and they heard Donald whimpering . |
| 5 | They had arrived at a first floor landing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As a result , they have arrived at a view which I shall call ‘ concessive ’ holism . |
| 10 | They have arrived at a similar endpoint , from a very different starting point . |
| 11 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 12 | 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 . |