Example sentences of "[noun] to the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

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1 The right hon. Member for Worcester has said in characteristically self-deprecating phrases that he does not have a great desire to be remembered but I am sure that , given his record , he will take it as an accolade to be thought of , in H. L. Mencken 's happy phrase , as a politician who could sit on the fence and have both ears to the ground at the same time .
2 What had brought Gharr and Ten-huc and Pulvidon to the planet at the same time ?
3 But , of course , Dorothy knows in those particular circumstances it was not a risk — the mental parameters fixed by the first half of the lesson controlled the freedom of the second half — and any individual child who could not cope could turn it into a ‘ reporting to the boss at the manhole ’ game .
4 Of all transport policies , road pricing seems most likely to cause apoplexy everywhere , from the Royal Automobile Club to the bar at the Rover 's Return .
5 Mexico to the fore at the Frankfurt Book Fair
6 ″ ) widebody design rackets made of 100% high modulus graphite and featuring Slazenger 's Optimum Mass System , which adds weight to the head at the five , seven and twelve o'clock positions , increases torsional rigidity and works with the fan stringing to expand the power zone .
7 At this very moment in time we are on the verge of having video telephones through which users will be able to see as well as talk to the person at the other end .
8 Glorious because they came away with a victory over Rosslyn Park … but no thanks to the quagmire at the Kingsholm ground .
9 It was intended to produce a secure annual income of £17 , of which £10 was to be devoted to the salary of the schoolmaster-priest in Stockport and £4 6 8d to the priest at the chapel in Longdendale .
10 When a patient comes to me for regression , I do in fact record the session on cassette , giving the tape to the patient at the end of the consultation .
11 Residents were worried that adaptations to the building at the corner of Bow Street and Princes Road meant it was to be used as a morgue .
12 This is only a single , polychrome representation , however ; it is comparable in position and effect to the peacock at the centre of the mosaic found in St. Nicholas Street , Leicester ( pI .
13 Just change the weaving yarn from one side to the other at the end of every row .
14 Philip Raper , 38 , of Honeypot Lane caravan site , Darlington , admitted assault causing actual bodily harm to the barmaid at the Archdeacon Pub , in Newton Lane , Darlington .
15 This separation of ownership caused much distress to the family at the time .
16 It you 're reusing an old radiator , fix the old brackets to the wall at the new radiator position and rehang the radiator .
17 Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance .
18 The former also help to emphasise the main path towards the house and the view from the bay window to the statue at the end of the walk .
19 He followed her down the hall to the kitchen at the back of the house .
20 It is known as the Baronnies and fills the top half of a triangle formed by the main roads which run south from Bàgneres and from La Barthe-de-Neste and which cross the mountains to the south at the Col d'Aspin .
21 The Dons travel to the magnificent World Cup stadium in Turin for the Cup Winners Cup clash with Torino , while Celtic are at home to the side at the top of the Portugese league , Sporting Lisbon .
22 ‘ Laura ! ’ he breathed thickly , his lips moving down over her soft cheek to the pulse at the base of her throat .
23 He had been crouched on the first-floor landing for a long time , peering through the banister rails to the kitchen at the end of the lower corridor , listening to the ebb and flow of their conversation .
24 Notwithstanding that the transfer is not lodged for registration or registration is refused , the beneficial interest in the shares will , it seems , pass from the seller to the buyer at the latest at stage ( 2 ) and , indeed will do so at stage ( 1 ) if the agreement is one which the courts would order to be specifically enforced .
25 In a personal injury action where the plaintiff prepares the summons it may now be served by the plaintiff 's solicitor sending it by first class post to the defendant at the address stated in the summons under Ord 7 , r10A .
26 Not content with this triumph , Joseph Thomas turned his attention to the groyne at the mouth of the harbour which attempted , not very successfully , to prevent sand from the beach silting up the harbour mouth .
27 Do pay attention to the note at the bottom of page 38 in the manual , which suggests that you ensure that the yarn is not caught round any of the sinker hooks when you take the yarn and wrap it around the needle in E position next to the knitting .
28 We must pay particular attention to the declaration at the end of the treaty about the role of the national Parliament .
29 She had lived all her life in the street running alongside the railway , and since she had retired from her late father 's business , a haberdashery store in Wimbledon , since she had sold it to a family from Northampton for a good price , Hannah Worthington walked each day to the shop at the end of the street .
30 We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes .
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