Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 2 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 3 | In the coffee bar she and Susan were laughing together at a story in the newspaper . |
| 4 | A survey carried out at a school in Bradford , Yorks , revealed that 3.6 per cent of Asian girls aged 14 to 16 were bulimic compared to just 0.6 per cent of white girls . |
| 5 | Relaxed and complacent , we headed our way out of the pub and down to a dip — then straight up a ferocious bank turning right at a junction in the road , signposted to Dale End . |
| 6 | But then he started scribbling away at A Year in Provence and the rest is history . |
| 7 | Pylon inquiry : inspectors explain how the hearing will be conducted Guidelines on how the pylons public inquiry would be run in North Yorkshire were drawn up at a meeting in Northallerton this week . |
| 8 | FIREMEN and police turned up at a house in Bracknell , Herts , with sirens blaring after Nibbles the hamster became trapped under the bath . |
| 9 | STUNNED staff turned up at a garage in Chicklade , Wilts , to find thieves had used a chainsaw to cut off and steal a petrol pump . |
| 10 | He looked across , smiled , winked at her , and said ‘ Hi there … er = ’ He glanced down at a sheet in front of him . |
| 11 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
| 12 | Agreement on the guiding principles of the Charter of Paris and on some of its institutions had been reached earlier at a meeting in New York of CSCE Foreign Ministers on Oct. 1-3 . |
| 13 | The first 1,000 guardsmen were sworn in at a ceremony in Tbilisi on Feb. 23 , the Soviet Army Day public holiday . |
| 14 | Gemma , 11 , was found alone at a flat in Hammersmith a fortnight after her mother left for a month 's holiday with a male friend on the Costa del Sol . |
| 15 | Maisie was sitting in front of the television , glaring sullenly at a man in a pink tracksuit . |
| 16 | A fire brigade spokesman said the fire broke out at a house in The Bank at 9.30am . |
| 17 | He lost , and lost again at a by-election in February 1936 in Ross and Cromarty against Malcolm MacDonald [ q.v. ] , the National Government candidate and dominions secretary — another embarrassment for his father who was then angling for a cabinet post . |
| 18 | She scraped away at a pan in silence for a while . |
| 19 | This was first suspected in 1878 , when a row of electric lights was put up at a hotel in New York . |
| 20 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 21 | The institutional investors that charged into junk bonds in the 1980s have now headed off at a gallop in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | SHOT AT during an armed hold-up , THREATENED by a violent drug gang and BEATEN UP at a party in posh Beverly Hills . |
| 23 | The canteen at TV London was largely deserted at half past ten the next morning when Dexter and Blanche sat down at a table in the corner of the self-service section . |
| 24 | Details of the plans were outlined yesterday at a conference in London on offshore installation work organised by the Institute of Marine Engineers and the Royal Institution of Naval Architects . |
| 25 | From Morpeth Gate we turned right following the path towards Swinithwaite , striking off at a kink in the lane to the field gate that led to the ruined Chapel of the Knights Templars . |