Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] at the [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 2 | Notice board for advertising activities of the J.G.V.A , at present situated at the tennis courts , serves no useful purpose . |
| 3 | Here , Chris Bonington looks at the way climbers develop their skills in order to test the above criteria , and sketches in the larger-than-life personalities and rivalries within the sport . |
| 4 | She sat behind a stream of cars stopped at the traffic intersections till they surged onwards and then stopped again . |
| 5 | These are the east-west wind speeds at the cloud tops . |
| 6 | Which particular pathway a cell follows is usually controlled by extracellular signals acting at the branch points . |
| 7 | This is why Mrs Dole got the Labour Department to look at the personnel records of nine big companies around the country . |
| 8 | Before climbing a steep , stiff staircase back up the cliff to Rhossili , I paused to watch the waves licking at the oak ribs of the Helvetia — a Norwegian coaster driven aground in 1887 , whose remains are still half buried in the sand . |
| 9 | In succession to earlier issues of Schubert , Mendelssohn , Tchaikovsky and Arensky , here they aptly couple Brahms and his erstwhile protégé , Dvořák , in performances recorded at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy , NY . |
| 10 | In 1988 the Lisbon club organised a six-a-side tournament played under floodlights and cricket now spread to the Algarve with floodlit six-a-side matches at the Rock Gardens Club . |
| 11 | The first of these summit meetings took place at Geneva in November 1985 ; it provided an opportunity for an exchange of views on the progress made at the arms talks and on regional issues . |
| 12 | A promising route is indicated by work undertaken at the Policy Studies Institute on the complex relationships between household formation and total population . |
| 13 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 14 | Home comforts at the Gigi Apartments |
| 15 | When Schiffer arrived at the Academy Awards to mark her debut as Revlon 's new star , she emerged from a double stretch limo , accompanied by suitable escort , Dan Moriarty , Revlon 's vice-president . |
| 16 | The Civil War travelling exhibition of arms and armour opens at the Town Docks Museum on 11 April where visitors can see the armour worn by the future Charles II at ‘ the refusal ’ . |
| 17 | In a sermon preached at the Reading Assizes in July 1681 , John Okes , whilst stressing the need for obedience to magistrates , also stated that if the magistrate commanded something " that is manifestly impious , and contrary to the know will of God " , we should not obey . |
| 18 | The other Arab countries represented at the Moscow talks were Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , Oman , Qatar , Bahrain , the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , Tunisia , Mauritania and Morocco . |
| 19 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 20 | Some days before the rescue centre collected the dogs , a lady enquired at the Oxford police station about two missing Rough Collies . |
| 21 | , Robert ( 1639–1720 ) , mason and architect , was baptized in June 1639 at Raunds , Northamptonshire , the son of Edward and Mary Grumbold , and was a member of a family of masons originating at the quarry villages of Raunds and Weldon which was active in the Northamptonshire area over several generations . |
| 22 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’ |
| 23 | Sun Microsystems Inc CEO Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers . |
| 24 | Gloria lead Dot up the outside steps from the basement to look at the cotton flags flapping in the sun . |
| 25 | The three-year research project funded by the English National Board to look at the learning experiences in the community found working with students was ‘ time consuming ’ and ‘ slowed down the work of the nurse ’ . |
| 26 | Initially the switching between phases occurs at the rotor positions corresponding to positive " crossovers " of the characteristics , so the motor is developing the pullout torque and the excitation sequence is . |
| 27 | The defence ministry is pursuing what it calls ‘ administrative ’ control over them , and is trying to win the loyalty of the troops serving at the missile sites . |
| 28 | In my own survey of visitors to the British Museum in which teams of five interviewers worked for four separate weeks interviewing at the museum entrances I made sure that I was present for at least the first day of each survey and was available by phone during the rest of the time . |
| 29 | The accident happened at the ICI fibres plant in Brockworth near Gloucester . |
| 30 | Winnie Mandela was grim-faced as she and her husband arrived at the Soweto Magistrates Court . |