Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] at the " in BNC.

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1 Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others .
2 Smith drew for a 4 at the first .
3 It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt .
4 The burial customs of the Parsi sect involve dead bodies being exposed on a grating at the top of a Tower of Silence .
5 Julie Hall , the 1987 English Champion who was to finish as high as third , had an opening 82 which took in an 8 at the 12th where her 2-iron second took off in a gust and ended in rough so deep that her third was an air shot .
6 Sergeant Graham Ellery was pictured on a sunlounger at the villa in France where Fergie canoodled with Texan boyfriend John Bryan .
7 He was shouting at the top of his voice into the microphone but save for a few at the front of the crowd , nobody could hear a word because someone had cut the amplifier cable .
8 A six-iron second shot reduced the 15th to an easy birdie , he narrowly missed for a two at the next and then finished three , three with first a seven-iron and then a nine-iron which landed close to the flags .
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