Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 2 | After the rehearsal they all , Miranda too , went to the Adelphi tea-rooms , where they laughed at the décor : " Straight from the thirties , darling . |
| 3 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 4 | or they stand at the bar . |
| 5 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 6 | Now the audit industry was in favour of that at the time because it saw itself as able to get its fingers into local authority audit so they were prepared to accept that they could do it then , it 's only now er when it 's proposed on what 's been their traditional prerogatives , they er er they audit of banks and private sector er er companies that they balk at the proposition and say ooh it 's horrendous we ca n't do it . |
| 7 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 8 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 9 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 10 | In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice . |
| 11 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 12 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 13 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 14 | He says safety is paramount you have to make sure the balloons are at the same temperatures and that they keep at the same height . |
| 15 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
| 16 | The Princesse had insisted that they gather at the Waldorf for a light lunch . |
| 17 | I suggest to those who talk of regional banding that they look at the protection that the banding system will offer to people living in London and the south-east . |
| 18 | Can I just finally say that the whole import of the orders is to ensure that they look at the criteria of authorisation , they are concerned with the authorisation of firms which take public deposits and investments and when that is brought into question , when there is evidence to suggest that those criteria are not being adequately med it must be right to impose a non costly duty on the auditors to bring that about , that is what these orders do tonight , I think they 're an extremely welcome addition to the stable of measures of regulation and they will improve materially depositor protection . |
| 19 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 20 | The main characteristic of rejuvenation terraces and breaks of slope in the valley side caused by the same process is that the terraces are essentially paired , so that they occur at the same elevation on both sides of the valley . |
| 21 | We shall begin our investigation of how causative verbs interact with the infinitive in English by looking at the contrast between make and cause because , although these two verbs seem quite similar in meaning , they are not followed by the same form of the infinitive : ( 134 ) While most enzymes can not make a reaction occur that would not take place in their absence , they speed up reactions so that they occur at the temperatures and other conditions which prevail within living organisms . |
| 22 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 23 | So what I 'm proposing is that we write to er Mick and erm Richard , asking what powers and responsibilities that they propose at the moment to devolve to Southwell . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman may not have noted the fact that we continue to encourage the Malawian Government to apply the principles of accountable government that they endorsed at the Harare Heads of Government meeting . |
| 25 | They can thus form an expectation of p ( ) t conditional on the information that they have at the end of period t - 1 . |
| 26 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 27 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 28 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 29 | He shouldered into Orcadai , and they struggled at the stair head . |
| 30 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |