Example sentences of "they [vb base] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would add that camp is oft en also a turning of the second set of categories — theatricality , irony , and a sense of the absurdity of extreme feeling — onto the first , such that the latter — authenticity , intensity , the fierce assertion of extreme feeling — if they remain at all , do so in a transformed state . |
| 2 | and they sell at fifty four pence |
| 3 | Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm |
| 4 | They booked into a hotel and Oliver suggested they eat at one of the restaurants in the old town . |
| 5 | Meltingly they eat at each other , like two carnivorous ice-creams . |
| 6 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 7 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 8 | This is not to say that the right and left are necessarily the same , but rather that they converge at key points and share an understanding of what is involved in the politics of ‘ race ’ . |
| 9 | A slightly more realistic approach recognizes that firms have life-cycles and that during different stages in their life-cycles they grow at different rates . |
| 10 | … how comparatively sweet was everything on board … no paint , no tar , no new rope ( vilest of smells to the squeamish ) , no grease or oil or varnish ; but instead of these , bamboo and rattan and choir rope and palm thatch : pure vegetable fibres , which smell pleasantly , if they smell at all , and recall quiet scenes in the green and shady forest . " |
| 11 | When he plays Sibelius with the New York Philharmonic tomorrow , a rare appearance here , they expect at best a draw . |
| 12 | Given the fact that much of the property in the western half of the country was sub-let to under-tenants at rack rents , it is doubtful whether regional differences were as pronounced as they appear at first sight . |
| 13 | As Macdonald explains , it seems that women are either invisible in most school textbooks or , when they appear at all , they are seen performing low-status tasks . |
| 14 | They appear at any time from mid-summer onwards . |
| 15 | They would fill the tanker from there and we go round the quarry filling the front machines , but erm they say at five or six thousand gallons has been emptied out of that er dump . |
| 16 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
| 17 | and the they cost at that time the Swatch costed about one thousand three hundred thousand francs and they costed about two thousand eight hundred I think |
| 18 | You could have somebody on twenty five , who when they 're twenty six er , contracting a debilitating disease , never goes back to work , and we pay their premiums until they die at sixty . |
| 19 | Later they wait at fussy complications of traffic-lights . |
| 20 | They 're all at a different school all day , and they shop at different times … but you never see them in restaurants and why should n't they be ? |
| 21 | As Richards has recently indicated , the Cox survey and the longitudinal study are not as mutually supportive as they seem at first sight . |
| 22 | Outrageous they seem at first . |
| 23 | It can therefore be seen that these inducements are not quite as attractive as they seem at first sight . |
| 24 | Some doctors may even hasten death with the pain-killing drugs they administer at this time , but their ‘ intent to kill ’ or otherwise , is rarely tested in a court . |
| 25 | I thought they would know , but they , they are closed at tw two o'clock in the afternoon , they open at two in the afternoon . |
| 26 | We might say we perceive them as separate because they vibrate at different frequencies . |
| 27 | She says they bark at all times of day and night . |
| 28 | Must be pretty tough for them when they look at other lasses . ’ |
| 29 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 30 | They look at each other in mutual love and self-giving , a trinity yet together revealing the unity of the Godhead . |