Example sentences of "them at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 2 | For a while Flavia Sherman joined them at the rail and stood with her hand resting on Joseph 's shoulder ; but she seemed restless and soon tired of watching the peasants at work in the fields . |
| 3 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 4 | Recognition was a blow , though by no means a fatal one , to the UNITA rebels , who have been fighting government soldiers since January , having lost to them at the election in September . |
| 5 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 6 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 7 | ‘ We found them at the home of Nigel , your predecessor . |
| 8 | He will then answer them at the council meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ It will please the Colonel to see them at the breakfast-table in the morning , ’ I-said . |
| 10 | The folds look as if they are pushing Helmsdale right into the sea ; as though the river in spate had collected all the houses it could uproot inland and deposited them at the river mouth with just enough of a toehold to keep them there . |
| 11 | While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times . |
| 12 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods larger than he contracted to sell and the buyer accepts the whole of the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 15 | Although the other judges would not look at the assessors ' lists , Burn met them at the hall and compared his list of preferences to theirs . |
| 16 | The public would still pay to see them at the cinema . |
| 17 | She thinks the microwave ‘ has changed our perceptions of time , much as telephones changed them at the turn of the century ’ . |
| 18 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 19 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 20 | Their points difference is vastly better than Rugby 's who are standing alongside them at the bottom and surely there was no way that a team as disadvantaged as Rugby could beat a team as talented as the Harlequins . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 22 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 23 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 24 | Black immigrants form part of this class structure , having jobs which tend to place them at the bottom . |
| 25 | But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden . |
| 26 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 27 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 28 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 29 | He met them at the gate and was smiling . |
| 30 | His Lordship Monboddo , wearing a little round hat and a farmer 's suit , met them at the gate . |