Example sentences of "they [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prevention of purprestures was his responsibility : he threw down houses , sheepfolds and other buildings and enclosures erected without licence in his bailiwick , and attached those who made them to appear at the next Forest Eyre . |
| 2 | And the contact turned into an embrace without either of them looking at the other or talking , they just put their arms around each other . |
| 3 | Standing behind them looking at the steaming urn on the barrow , I felt worse than hungover ; it was a mixture of too little sleep , being hot and unwashed , completely unaware of what was going on , and worst , I was hungry . |
| 4 | so that modifications could be introduced in the physical , social or educational environments of these children which would help them achieve at the same level of conceptual development as is found in children from western societies . |
| 5 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 6 | Eight of their first 10 concerts were in Leeds but a rare excursion saw them appear at the Old Bell pub in Derby . |
| 7 | ‘ You write the specifications for her repairs , and I 'll guarantee to have them done at the best boatyard in America . ’ |
| 8 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 9 | This bids them to look at the common law ( i.e. the legal position ) before the Act , and the mischief that the statute was intended to remedy ; the Act is then to be construed in such a way as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy . |
| 10 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 11 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 12 | The index-linked gilts on the market have maturities of up to 2024 and most of them stand at a substantial premium to their par value . |
| 13 | The notice to the creditors must state a time and date , not more than four days before the meeting , by when the creditors must lodge their proofs of debt ( Form 6.37 in Sched 4 to the rules , see App C , form 34 ) and , if applicable , proxies , in order to entitle them to vote at the first meeting ( r 6.79(4) ) . |
| 14 | It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time . |
| 15 | Her father and mother were sitting tensely on the sofa , Omi at the table , upright , disdain on her fine features , Bodo , huge against the wall , and all of them staring at the stubby , shabby , ash-stained figure of Marx , blinking through his red eyes at the document and reading aloud in an artificially solemn voice , practised in legal jargon and with which he , no doubt , had read out a hundred , a thousand , such documents . |
| 16 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 17 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 18 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 19 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 20 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 21 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 22 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 23 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 24 | However , they agreed at the last moment to participate . |
| 25 | They rode at a gentle trot . |
| 26 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 27 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 28 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 29 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 30 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |