Example sentences of "at [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him .
2 Also , he found that by glancing occasionally at William 's medieval illustrations he was able to prolong the actual phallic performance to well over half an hour , a personal best , even deducting the time taken to eat the cakes .
3 Celia tugged at William 's hand .
4 Poor Elizabeth is terribly unhappy at William 's death .
5 ‘ Poor Elizabeth is terribly unhappy at William 's death . ’
6 P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school
7 Columbus at Isabella 's court is quickly burdened with the reputation of a crazy man .
8 He spent more time hanging out at Jacqueline 's flat .
9 Might as well be a big one take them home , leave some at mum 's and take the rest home .
10 Well well no , you know I had at mum 's and I
11 It 's three quarters of an hour when I was at mum 's .
12 The 15,000 crowd at Limerick 's famed Thomond Park for the All Ireland League key match between Shannon and Garryowen was it own testimony to the grip the competition has gained on the Irish game .
13 Stay at Goulding 's Lodge , a ranch built for the set of the movie She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( this , remember , was John Ford country ) and surrounded by high open desert .
14 Priced at roughly $1,500 , the WS-IT is 80386-based AT clone sans screen and keyboard , the idea being that it can use the existing dumb terminal keyboard and VGA screen .
15 Per capita beef consumption is similar to that of the Netherlands at 16.8kg per annum , but with an annual Danish production of about 243,000 tonnes only Portugal and Greece rank below Denmark in the EEC .
16 Sophie sat down at Pascoe 's table and said , ‘ I thought I 'd find you here . ’
17 She looked at Pascoe 's reflection with her own reflected face .
18 The group , which will initially amount to about 20 people , will be based at ICL 's new development centre at Gorton in Manchester .
19 Speaking at ICL 's Software Open Show in Birmingham in the UK last week , Unify said it expects to launch Accell/TP and Accell/Object next month .
20 A Sun spokesperson also confirmed that the company was to terminate its contract with ICL Ltd for Sparcstation circuit board manufacture at ICL 's Kidsgrove plant ( UX No 291 ) .
21 The chosen day was 16 December , when there were meetings at GLEB 's offices to discuss Sutton 's dummy .
22 ( See page 127 for your free invitation to the Pasha launch at Cartier 's Sloan Street store . )
23 Now Mr Bradburn , choirmaster at Northumberland 's Hexham Abbey , has been suspended from his teaching post .
24 She found herself gazing at Roman 's secretary-receptionist with an effort at detachment , trying to pin-point the exact logical reason for this rush of unprecedented hatred towards someone she barely knew .
25 Glancing up at Roman 's face , she felt her heart miss a beat .
26 ‘ At least I did n't wake you up , then , ’ she observed huskily , waves of warmth invading her body at Roman 's nearness .
27 As she risked a glance up at Roman 's dark face , her heart seemed to plummet down to her stomach .
28 When he arrived at Florey 's laboratory , Chain was delighted to see a Sohxlet apparatus in a cupboard , but caused consternation by saying ‘ I shall want six of those ’ .
29 Caterina and Rosalba , working at Sabina 's side in the cool of the pantry 's shade , were pinching pouches of dough to seal in the stuffing of cream cheese , pepper and chopped basil and lining up the results on a white tea towel powdered with coarse rice flour .
30 She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ?
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