Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 2 | Bannister , 32 , pleaded with Clough for a trial at the start of the season after being kicked out by West Bromwich , but he missed several chances in Saturday 's 0-0 draw at Chelsea . |
| 3 | The remuneration for a lecture at the National Gallery that might take two weeks to prepare stands at £50 and in many cases you pay for your own slides . |
| 4 | TRAINER Dick Allan yesterday confirmed that Pat 's Jester remains on course for a crack at the King George at Kempton on Boxing Day . |
| 5 | ‘ The staff have been very generous with both their time and money , ’ said Lindsay who was called upon to hand over the £2,000 cheque during a get-together at The Old George pub in Newcastle . |
| 6 | Mr. G. Sharp contributed £5 , the profits from a hymn which he had composed , and subsistence money for a solder at the infirmary produced an additional £3.16.6d . |
| 7 | Horden and Easington best by night and Blackhall worth a try at the turn of the tide . |
| 8 | Their praise encourages Miss Amelia Martin to make her disastrous debut as a singer at the White Conduit . |
| 9 | Put in perspective , that was equivalent to the achievement of the whole of Fighter Command during a day at the height of the Battle of Britain , but with only a handful of men and stores involved . |
| 10 | SNUBBED : Roseanne heads for a bust-up at the TV awards ceremony |
| 11 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 12 | Of the Italian drawings , a newly discovered Perino del Vaga pen and wash study of ‘ Psyche borne on a litter to her marriage festivities ’ , a study for a fresco at the Castel Sant' Angelo , Rome , sold for $34,000 ( £21,250 ; est. $20,000–25,000 ) ; a rare Guercino oiled charcoal academie of a male nude was sold under estimate for $100,000 ( £62,500 ; est. $120,000–150,000 ) ; and the badly-faded Domenico Tiepolo ‘ Scene of Execution ’ made a remarkable $72,500 ( £45,300 ; est. $40,000–60,000 ) . |
| 13 | I 've been invited down to Plymouth for a party at the weekend . ’ |
| 14 | Cross , 19 , admitted it was a wrench to leave Plymouth for a club at the other end of the country . |
| 15 | For the position as regards the attendance of an applicant for a renewal at the meeting of the licensing board at which his application is to be considered , see s.15 . |
| 16 | No fun and frivolity as a treat at the end of Part 2 I 'm afraid — it 's straight into Part 3 . |
| 17 | A TOP Co Antrim motorcycle ace today spoke of how he thought he was going to die when he crashed at more than 150mph during a race at the North West 200 . |
| 18 | THE publication last week of the National Radiological Protection Board 's assessment that some 260 people may have caught cancer of the thyroid as a result of a fire at the Windscale plutonium pile in 1957 has been greeted with anger by the British nuclear industry . |
| 19 | Sean Hick , 31 , and Paul Hughes , 28 , were accused of the murder of Major Michael Dillon-Lee in Dortmund on June 2 , 1990 , and the attempted murder of a guard at the British Army 's Langenhagen Barracks , near Hanover , on May 4 , 1990 . |
| 20 | THE future of a yard at the heart of Darlington 's conservation area is to be decided next week . |
| 21 | IT was said here yesterday that Vic Reeves , the Darlington alternative comedian ( that is somebody who does n't make you laugh which is alternative to a comedian ) was the sole North-East recipient of a gong at the BAFTA awards the other night . |
| 22 | No doubt that was due to the ticking off she had received from that strict harridan of a teacher at the small private school in Kensington . |
| 23 | ( 4 ) Subject to section 13(2) of this Act , if no application is made for the renewal of a licence at the quarterly meeting mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) above , the licence shall expire on the first day of that meeting . |
| 24 | Distribution of labelled cells within crypts was similar with respect to the two methods with a peak at the 18th and the 24th percentile in the case of BrdU and at the 23rd percentile for PCNA . |
| 25 | So we would run many SQL Servers with a Navigation at the front . |
| 26 | The basic necessity , as with the more conventional murder mystery , is to propound your impossibility with a bang at the very beginning . |
| 27 | He had six birdies and an eagle , but lost his chance of catching the leader when he hit his only bad stroke with a 1-iron at the sixteenth . |
| 28 | A terrace with a view at the Tramontano |
| 29 | A black lace top and red satin flounces , a sleek , black wig with a bun at the nape , a thick plastering of theatrical make-up and brass curtain rings in my ears . |
| 30 | CHRIS COBLEY follows-up last month 's fascinating interview with a look at the reasons why he prefers herbs to treat his fish . |