Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [n mass] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just time for a cup of coffee , she thinks , but she will have to make it herself as the office is short staffed , with the Corporal Clerk away representing the Corps at the celebrations to mark the tenth anniversary of the Queen Mother being appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports . |
| 2 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 3 | Persuade the people at the top to replace company cars with a salary equivalent . |
| 4 | I remember that the performance of the enormous Wigan props , Ken Gee and Frank Whitcombe , caused the people at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1946 to cry , ‘ That 's it . |
| 5 | The culminating voice of the multitude can not be heard without a congregational blurring of the line in long-accumulated reverberations , however heroic the efforts to magnify the dynamics at the end . |
| 6 | Daphne Neville says the staff at the centre have put her in an embarrassing position . |
| 7 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 8 | And that made me wonder if you were in it , too , and he 'd had a rendezvous at the cottage . |
| 9 | She had to do all the work of the house , dig the garden , fetch the wood , fill the water.jugs at the village well , and make sure the hearth-stone was hot . |
| 10 | Further lectures by both Coleridge and Southey were to follow , those which Coleridge delivered including one attacking the slave trade and another concerning the Hair Powder Tax ( later to become the improbable subject of his first sermon ) ; and at the end of June he began a series at the Assembly Coffee House on the Quay comparing the English Civil War and the French Revolution . |
| 11 | The average home loan is now almost triple the £13,000 at the beginning of the Eighties . |
| 12 | The average home loan is now almost triple the £13,000 at the beginning of the Eighties . |
| 13 | The families of the victims were reluctant to co-operate with the police at first because they felt the staff at the hospital where Allitt was a student nurse — the Grantham and Kesteven — had done a wonderful job . |
| 14 | In addition it is clear from the transcript that she , very naturally , attached great importance to the fact that she knew the staff at the unit , had two friends there and , perhaps even more important , had a great bond with a lady who was assisting in her treatment . |
| 15 | In one-party states , spontaneous political participation by the masses is actively discouraged and realistic threats to the prevailing order tend to be focused on changing the people at the top , coup d'etat , rather than on changing the conditions under which global capitalism operates . |
| 16 | ‘ Do the people at the top really know what they are doing ? ’ |
| 17 | On August 14 , John Allison , considering the short hangar time he had on the aircraft , flew the Corsair in a beautiful aerobatic routine , and the following day he flew across to Coventry Airshow , Warks , to display the aircraft at the RAFA Airshow there . |