Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met the promoter at a party and he was looking for an opening act and I said that I had this dance band which would be a perfect opener for Gary Glitter and he took us on . |
| 2 | Before she met the Minister at a party , through her Private Eye journalist friend Paul Halloran , the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate was leading an uncertain lifestyle bouncing from one boyfriend to the next and one downmarket job to another . |
| 3 | When he first met the Yorks at a dinner party in London two years ago , not even we had heard of him . |
| 4 | Bryan 's name first surfaced in London 's snob society two years ago when he met the Yorks at a dinner party . |
| 5 | Sir Geoffrey met the Commissioner at a Lord Mayor 's Banquet , and when he became worried he naturally went to him . |
| 6 | CHRISTINE Elliott enjoyed every minute working for her Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award — and when she met the Duke at the presentation ceremony she told him so . |
| 7 | The King 's army was dispatched and met the rebels at a site now known as ‘ Bloody Oaks ’ , about five miles north-west of the town near Empingham . |
| 8 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 9 | There were minor differences in the arrangement of the hand-rails , they lacked the loop at the end of the dash top rail and there were typical Brush brackets supporting the stair landings . |
| 10 | They took a bus to Regent Street and posted the letter at the Heddon Street post office . |
| 11 | Drago unlocked the door at the top of the stairs , and led the way into a high narrow storeroom . |
| 12 | Stephen seemed unperturbed , and she felt stupid for allowing the scene at the airport to upset her so much . |
| 13 | More brilliance still would be given to the tune if the trumpets doubled the trombone at the octave above . |
| 14 | A plan to restore the windows at a cost of DFl.1.2 million has been approved by the State Office for Monuments who are putting up the greater part of the necessary funds . |
| 15 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 16 | Strategy 1 involves the purchase at the beginning of the year of all the shares in the stock index ( i.e. all the shares in the FTSE100 index with the appropriate weights ) . |
| 17 | This usually involves removing three or four screws and sliding or rotating the lip at the front of the cover away from the retaining slot under the case front . |
| 18 | Greenpeace had taken one of its boats , the Cedarlea , to monitor the radioactivity at the end of the Sellafield discharge pipeline . |
| 19 | Perhaps he hoped to bluff the policeman at the gate . |
| 20 | In a pique against Harlequins last Saturday he flung the ball at the opposition tighthead prop and was lucky not to be sent off . |
| 21 | He flung the contract at the feet of the American . |
| 22 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 23 | saw Bob and , I mean I passed the pub at a quarter past twelve . |
| 24 | In 1929 he reached the pinnacle of educational success when he passed the agregation at the Ecole Normale Superieure in the company of Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir . |
| 25 | He did n't see anyone down there , but he insists that as he passed the alcove at the end of the gallery , he had the strong impression that someone was sitting in there , watching him . ’ |
| 26 | Ambassadors from the 16 alliance nations agreed the move at a meeting in Brussels . |
| 27 | For West Indies , two bowlers , Garner and Marshall , shared the honours at the top of the averages with 27 wickets each , Garner 's being slightly the less expensive at just 16 apiece . |
| 28 | ‘ Goodbye ’ will also feature on the band 's second album , as yet untitled , expected to hit the shops at the end of October . |
| 29 | Mr Poole said there was evidence that some ambulance workers in the shires had been breaching the ban at the request of managers . |
| 30 | I wanted as far as possible to forearm the boy at the beginning of adolescence — not ramming a weapon into his hand willy-nilly , but showing him the size and shape of it and where it lies in such a way that he would take it up without realizing he was doing so and find himself using it when he needed to . |