Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wake you at five a.m. , which is when I 'm often going to bed , and you 're so knackered by mid-morning that you doze all day . ’ |
| 2 | They wake you at three-hourly intervals all night long . |
| 3 | No I think they know nothing at all about business . |
| 4 | Lancashire men like women with a bit of fight in them , especially when they direct it at each other . |
| 5 | So terrified of doing the wrong thing that they do nothing at all — except bleat like sheep about their petty rules and regulations and their morality . |
| 6 | They do nothing at all ! |
| 7 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 8 | One might not expect sawing a Renault 5 in half to constitute part of an electronics research project , but that 's what they call it at sub-basement level , below the Strand . |
| 9 | Perhaps they reflect nothing at all except the accidents of conception : but I suspect that there is often , in fact , a buried clue here , and that if we could unearth it we should know something about the early growth of many market towns that no documents will ever tell us . |
| 10 | Consequently the women get it in preference to the men , because they take it at lower rates " . |
| 11 | They have nothing at all to eat . |
| 12 | The Business Plan goes back with the letter because they will require a copy of the business plan so that they when they see you at three , six , twelve and eighteen months |