Example sentences of "[vb past] them at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sketchbooks contain swift pencil notations which correspond to oil paintings , although it is not entirely clear what function they served and whether Monet consulted them at any later stage in the evolution of his compositions . |
| 2 | As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door . |
| 3 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 4 | Remember the carnations , we got them at one of the shops , the florist in . |
| 5 | I found them at last . |
| 6 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 7 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 8 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 9 | I followed them at all three , but if The Valley was a 100 miles away , I 'd still be back . ’ |
| 10 | Roman settled them at one of the small tables in a garden at the side of the yard at the Crowned Head . |
| 11 | The road was crossed by a locked-down barrier about two kilometres further on , but Belov had a key and the barrier hardly slowed them at all . |
| 12 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 13 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 14 | he never saw them at all , no . |
| 15 | You can see furniture , you can see old houses , Arthur Neagus going round all these old houses , you can see a lot of things now , that the normal public never would see in the , the ordinary man in the street probably never saw them at one time , but I think this must of made a difference to people . |
| 16 | Saw them at ten to nine , and then she passed them again at ten past nine . |
| 17 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 18 | How we stumbled on this was that when we grew some of these algae at Plymouth with our colleagues there , we found that when we grew them at one temperature then these two molecules were present in a certain ratio but when we changed the water temperature then the er ratio changed . |
| 19 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 20 | You think you know people and then you wonder if you ever knew them at all . ’ |
| 21 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 22 | They talked for ages , making their drinks last , and no one came and bothered them at all . |
| 23 | They obtained some preserved embryo amphisbaenians — a difficult thing to do as specimens are scarce — and sectioned them at various stages of development . |