Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 2 | Where properties are untenanted , Retirement Assured has valued them at open market value with vacant possession . |
| 3 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 4 | After the tragedy a couple of men had gone up with concrete posts : he 'd watched them at it . |
| 5 | Er , it 's in the other magazine I fetched from work after the I 'd left them at work . |
| 6 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 7 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 8 | We would have expected them at the beginning , and as we are still at the beginning , they ought to be here . |
| 9 | Cherry had floated home at five , having wowed them at Shuff 's and danced all night . |
| 10 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 11 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 12 | If by staying at Lichfield His Royal Highness had resolved to provide against their reaching Derby , he must have left them at liberty to have got into Wales without any difficulty … |
| 13 | We should have beaten them at their place as well . |
| 14 | ‘ Swindon are a good side , but we would have beaten them at Ayresome Park but for a crazy final ten minutes . ’ |
| 15 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 16 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , General Yen , I seem to have left them at my hotel . |
| 18 | If the purchaser himself intends to dispose subsequently of these assets he will prefer to have acquired them at the higher base cost to minimise capital gains or corporation tax on a subsequent disposal . |
| 19 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 20 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 21 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 22 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Chauffeurs had met them at their Inn on the Park hotel , at seven o'clock sharp ; and at five minutes to eight they had taken their seats around the long elliptical table at European headquarters to ensure the meeting began on time , at precisely eight o'clock . |
| 24 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 25 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 26 | I 've seen them at the shop , paying their bills . |
| 27 | I 've seen them at Pisa and Florence , they 're only large houses really , rather grand all the same , so much stone and ceiling , hard to keep warm in the winters . |
| 28 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 29 | Oh , I 've , I 've got them at the chemist , that E forty five , |
| 30 | But if I give some names to Mr next week I think yes well I 've got them at the music later today so I can ask them then . |