Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 2 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 3 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 4 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 5 | but we 're not allowed to put posters on the walls you know , it 's better for them to stick them at |
| 6 | ‘ Why do n't we ring a garage and have them meet me at your car with the keys ? |
| 7 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 8 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 9 | There 's still probably a lot more people thought who saw things out there , and we 'd still like them to contact us at Cowley if they 've any information as to who the offenders are . |
| 10 | A series which is broadcast each week has a number of features designed into it to help viewers recognise " their " programme and encourage them to watch it at the same time every week . |
| 11 | Cos they sell it at Cleethorpes market with little pot pou pure , yeah them . |
| 12 | The important thing is , did they hurt you at all ? ’ |
| 13 | Cos I remember once when they asked me at work to deliver the annual speech you know the man that asked me he says er , you know , they 've gone round everybody else and nobody else would do it and would I do it , and I said good lord , that were my first reaction , and I realized like all the company secretaries lo lord , so I did very well there |
| 14 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 15 | Yeah well they , they sold it at the wrong ti I mean they built it the wrong time did n't they ? |
| 16 | It was a wonderful experience , they entertained us at their home and took us to see some of Auckland 's wonderful sights . |
| 17 | Is that how they make them at school darling ? |
| 18 | ‘ They stopped me at the border and arrested me . ’ |
| 19 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 20 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 21 | and then er they they found it at the polic , the police station |
| 22 | ‘ They phoned me at home on a Friday evening and that night I went out to celebrate , ’ she said . |
| 23 | They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge . |
| 24 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 25 | ‘ Leeds were on top of their game when they thrashed us at Hillsborough in January , ’ said defender Nigel Worthington . |
| 26 | After sorely abusing the corpse , they buried it at the foot of the gallows , intending the burial as a final disgrace . |
| 27 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 28 | because they do n't give a specific definition as to what a landlord is or a rich peasant or a middle peasant meant that how that there was a lot of flexibility within that and it 's only later that they have to reissue those two documents on how to analyze the classes which erm which had been published in nineteen thirty which they felt that you know the Party 's moving too far away , but why did n't they do it at the time ? |
| 29 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 30 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |