Example sentences of "they [vb past] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 2 | GRIDIRON : London Monarchs yesterday drew 17–17 with Birmingham Fire to leave them anchored at the bottom of the European Division of the World League . |
| 3 | Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence . |
| 4 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 5 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 6 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 7 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 8 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 9 | They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Together they gazed at the family portraits and Miss Hatherby pointed out the niceties of her forefathers ' dress — ‘ Folk would literally kill for shoe buckles of that quality . |
| 12 | They loitered at the front of the house , at the garden corner , sharp angle of white stone , and scowled at one another . |
| 13 | In a significant move forward towards the establishment of a non-racial democracy , they agreed at the end of three days of talks in Cape Town to take a common stand on two important issues when multi-party constitutional talks resume : power sharing in a future democratic system and regional government . |
| 14 | They checked at the girl 's school and whether the man was known to police . |
| 15 | They led at the interval by one goal to nil , that was thanks to an Andy Thomas goal , following a cross from Neil Waters . |
| 16 | Isabelle says part of the reason for her previous reluctance to speak of their personal life is the rough handling they experienced at the hands of the French press , with their sarcastic digs at Eric 's love of painting and poetry . |
| 17 | One of them made crochet toilet-seat covers that they sold at the shop . |
| 18 | They registered at the desk . |
| 19 | They stopped at the top of the hill and sat down . |
| 20 | They stopped at the foot and stared up at the curtain wall rising above them . |
| 21 | After passing beneath several narrow bridges , some wooden , some stone , under which Michele had to bend his head , they stopped at the intersection of two canals . |
| 22 | They stopped at the edge of the sisal fields , turning to look back . |
| 23 | ‘ This is very good , ’ he said , as they stopped at the edge of the bare earth . |
| 24 | They stopped at the corner and Chris said anxiously , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've said all the wrong things , seemed to dwell on my side of things . |
| 25 | They stopped at the end of the harbour wall , and Miguel gently drew Shelley against him , so that they walked back linked together . |
| 26 | They stopped at the comer of Gray 's Inn Road , waiting for the lights to change . |
| 27 | They stopped at the Zebra Crossing and Pete watched the big lorries and buses and cars roar past . |
| 28 | They stopped at the jeep , and he eyed her solemnly . |
| 29 | Subjects spent longer reading words when they occurred at the end of a clause or a sentence . |
| 30 | Flax mills and handweavers — also useful generally because they helped at the harvest and other farm-intensive moments — came to these villages which were advertised as having little plots of land , enough to sustain a cow , and enough peat to keep a family fireplace burning , and enough life in general to support those married , or intending to marry . |