Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't think what people see in them , ’ he added darkly , referring to the fact that most of the Zoo visitors who came by the Cages spent more time looking at the vultures than they did at African eagles like him . |
| 2 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 3 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
| 4 | Mr. Spearing : Is the Leader of the House aware that those who are concerned about this matter are grateful to him for referring to the Select Committee 's report of two years ago and that we look forward to the Government implementing the intention that they stated at that time ? |
| 5 | A shadow seemed to have fallen over them , perhaps a premonition that they would never see each other again , and they stared at each other as though trying to commit each other 's features to memory . |
| 6 | Rourke 's thumb was still pressed to the bell as she opened the door , and they stared at each other , he , frowning , she with an expression of wary mistrust . |
| 7 | Franca came and sat on the bed and took hold of Patrick 's hand and they looked at each other . |
| 8 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 9 | The tranquil white-washed villages were a welcome relief and they stopped at small bars and quenched their thirst with local wine and spring water . |
| 10 | The force of the blow pushed them apart , and they arrived at opposite walls simultaneously , kicked again , and met once more in the centre . |
| 11 | And they nodded at each other , for all the world , Isobel thought , like a pair of well-fed penguins . |
| 12 | By that time the native peoples constituted a minority of only 30 per cent of the total population of Siberia , and they remained at that level until the end of the eighteenth century , although their own numbers increased from 288,000 in 1719 to 732,000 in 1795 . |
| 13 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 14 | Now they could then say well that particular group of people , if they looked at this evidence that I 've got , would want to say this about it and they would want to change it in such and such a way , and there 's another group of people who perhaps have rather different views on what history might be doing and they would view the evidence and argue about it in this way . |
| 15 | The other is that they were Christians but they received at this point more of the Holy Spirit , they were filled with the Spirit ‘ as at the beginning . ’ |
| 16 | She and Corrie were allowed to play while the other children attended lessons in alphabets and multiplication tables , but they sat at one end of the long playroom like wilting flowers , still too unhappy at their uprooting to do anything . |
| 17 | These signals may have been less predictive of the outcome because they occurred at higher frequencies at earlier stages in the conflicts . |
| 18 | The Webbs explain that their original definition , relating the trade unions ' function to conditions of employment , implied that trade unions had always contemplated a perpetual continuance of the capitalist or wage system , whereas they had at various dates during the past century at any rate frequently had aspirations towards a revolutionary change in social and economic conditions . |
| 19 | While they glared at each other he recalled that Carrie had said something similar earlier in the day . |
| 20 | In another incident they injured five Germans when they shot at another bus in the town of Qena . |
| 21 | When they arrived at Green Gables , Marilla came to the door to meet them . |
| 22 | They introduced ad hoc postulates , such as proposing that objects got shorter when they moved at high speeds . |
| 23 | He nodded and there followed an awkward silence where Julie and Nina must have become aware of the tension , for they glanced at each other at the same moment as a patient arrived in the centre . |
| 24 | ‘ Who was that man , Virginia ? ’ he persisted quietly , as they waited at more traffic lights . |
| 25 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 26 | There was silence as they glanced at each other , and Sophie said irritably , ‘ It 's exactly as I said . |
| 27 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 28 | A wave passed , so high that its spray burst against a side porthole as they stared at each other . |
| 29 | As they stared at each other everything seemed fine , the differences did not matter , all that mattered was the love they shared . |
| 30 | There was silence as they looked at each other across the table . |