Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] at [art] " 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 | A favourite place was Newbeggin-in-Teesdale where they stayed at a farm and where he learned to ride . |
| 4 | Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time . |
| 5 | or they stand at the bar . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 7 | In retrospect , many of those stories now seem considerably less fanciful than they did at the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 10 | One reason for them being so common is that they reproduce at a high rate , and their high reproduction rate is one of the main topics of this chapter . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 13 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it 's not part of the the police case here , that they knew at the time that they entered the flat . |
| 16 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 17 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
| 18 | TEAM Components Bureau , having secured their first Scottish women 's league title last weekend , are keen to ensure that they remain at the top . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Princesse had insisted that they gather at the Waldorf for a light lunch . |
| 22 | Government ministers seem to think that they look at a pile of brochures . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 27 | Bona fide NVOCC 's , on the other hand , feel that they operate at a competitive disadvantage with regard to unscrupulous NVOCC 's which seem able to disregard the 1984 Shipping Act with impunity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |