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

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1 WE TUMBLE straight back on the enormo-bus after the gig and travel for five hours to New York in preparation for playing at the NY Academy two nights later .
2 A case for staying at The Lygon Arms .
3 We may not all want to be ‘ artists ’ , producing and performing work , but arts events can provide another accessible route for looking at the world in relation to disabled people .
4 The rules contain no provision about standing at the hearing stage , but the basic test of sufficient interest appears to apply at the hearing stage as well as at the leave stage .
5 This strategy is particularly interesting in that it implies an awareness of a lack in the Oxfordshire scheme , which provides neither guidance on strategies for looking at the curriculum nor criteria for judging its appropriateness and adequacy , but merely requires teachers to do it .
6 The American visitor wrote out the cheque after staying at the £16-a-night City of London hostel .
7 Stewart Raynsford and Peter Kemp were found slumped in their unlocked cell just hours after arriving at the jail and it was assumed they had been attacked by fellow inmates .
8 You may make a switch of this kind after starting at the Bar .
9 When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court .
10 The machine , an original Boston Tacker from the early nineteen hundreds was prepared by Taffy for showing at the exhibition this month at Wellingborough branch .
11 Jacopo Bassano ‘ The miraculous draught of fishes ’ , to be shown at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth , Texas , from 23 January to 24 April , when the major Jacopo Bassano exhibition transfers to the States after closing at the Museo Civico of Bassano del Grappa on 6 December .
12 In all our dealings with the head teacher we found that he consistently refused to accept that the methods of teaching at the school were failing our son .
13 Over the last 20 years there has been a move away from looking at children and adults in isolation towards looking at the needs of both , in terms of the family .
14 In 1952 he became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music before retiring to Fife in 1964 , where he continued to teach for many years .
15 Accounting and Business Research is edited by Bob Parker , Professor of Accountancy at the University of Exeter and Chris Nobes , Coopers & Lybrand Professor of Accounting at the University of Reading .
16 For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire .
17 Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ .
18 Remembering the humiliation of arriving at the Geneva summit in 1955 in a plane with only two engines , he took the biggest and longest-range jet of its day , the TU 114 , to New York .
19 In the garden of the Adam and Eve , Theodora drank sherry and gave herself the pleasure of gazing at the spire of the cathedral .
20 He looked down at their faces — those he could discern in that sea of tall hats and paper , half-lost among the scaffolding : common faces , glowing with common avarice , indulging the common pleasure of gloating at the latecomers ' despair .
21 PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust .
22 It is this that I had in mind in proposing at the outset my three notions and calling one of them , the last , language as replay .
23 Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China .
24 Lord 's secretly warned Surrey in writing at the end of the 1991 season .
25 Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account .
26 The middle paragraph , which summarizes Sadat 's condition on arriving at the hospital and the doctors ' report , is expanded into three pages in the Arabic version .
27 One basic decision you have to make is whether to index a card by writing at the top of the card a theme/keyword or a name of an author/title .
28 Peons were even brought in sustain the illusion by prodding at the land , and a bulldozer chugged about .
29 We can corroborate our timescale of the circulation by looking at the changes in density surface of the salinity minimum .
30 Finally , noting the prominence of assertions to the contrary , by Conservative speakers , we will conclude this chapter by looking at the relationship between crime and unemployment .
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