Example sentences of "[verb] at [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coventry , however , have not won at home in the League since mid-September and are without the suspended McGrath , Gynn taking over in midfield . |
| 2 | She was educated at home until the age of twelve , when she became a day-boarder at Strathallan House , London , until the age of sixteen . |
| 3 | The Gooding-Sanken company will be located at Aberaman in the Cynon Valley where unemployment is estimated to be 21 per cent — the highest in south Wales . |
| 4 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 5 | ‘ Do you really imagine I 'd bellow at Finn in the street ? ’ she enquired . |
| 6 | This thermal regenerative incinerator , recently installed at Betacolor in The Republic of San Marino , treats polluted gases from the painting of aluminium components . |
| 7 | They are blessed with good humour and bring luck to mortal miners by knocking at spots behind the seam faces where rich ore lodes may be found . |
| 8 | He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism . |
| 9 | Several R.A.F. planes crashed at locations throughout the county but it was three years until the next disaster brought death and destruction to a quiet residential street in Prestwick . |
| 10 | Oh yes , we used to meet at top of the yard . |
| 11 | One of her few friends in the movement , whom she used to meet at Lockharts in the Strand for a poached egg once a week , had come down from a mill town in Lancashire in 1916 with nothing but two brown paper parcels . |
| 12 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 13 | If anything stands at variance with the evidence , it is this system of beliefs . |
| 14 | A singularis consularis is attested at Catterick on the altar which also records a beneficiarius , Q. Varius Vitalis . |
| 15 | In response to the call , an aproned figure peered at Harry from the kitchen , then bustled towards him , wiping her hands in a towel as she came . |
| 16 | They sat outside at a table overlooking the bay , with the twinkling lights of the harbour beyond , the big yachts and the smaller boats bobbing at anchor in the moonlight . |
| 17 | JOHN MONIE has accepted a two-year contract to coach Auckland when he finishes at Wigan at the end of this season . |
| 18 | He will be succeeded at Bungay in the autumn by Father Edward Crouzet , currently Catholic Chaplain at the University of Bristol . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've got more snow up here and all over the Swiss Alps than we have had in 50 years , ’ said Dr Othmar Buser , whose research centre is perched at 2,660m on the Weissfluhjoch above Davos . |
| 20 | At Camberwell Bobby Hunt formed the Bob Hunt 's Ragtime Band ( Bobby on trumpet , Oska on trombone , Monty Sunshine on clarinet , Terry Arthurs on piano and Denis ( ‘ Pip ’ ) Piper on a one-string bass made out of a wooden box and a broomhandle ) and which rehearsed at lunchtime in the pottery room , Minton helping some of its members to buy their instruments . |
| 21 | Khonsu was also a moon god , who could be depicted as hawk-headed , and was venerated at Thebes as the son of Amun and Mut . |
| 22 | There 's more to getting the chop than meets the eye , as Gill Kersley looks at blocks across the board |
| 23 | Generally , this method , however , I believe is more useful for studying the human condition than an experimental approach which looks at behaviour as the result of manipulation of variables . |
| 24 | Although one looks at reasonableness at the time the agreement is entered into , it is only practical also to take into account the legitimate expectations of the parties at that time regarding the future , and what is reasonably foreseeable . |
| 25 | In I Peter 2 , the writer looks at Jesus from the viewpoint of suffering Christians and says : ‘ Yes , I know all that you are enduring … look at Jesus … follow him . ’ |
| 26 | The second-year economic history course looks at changes in the world economy between 1750 and 1914 while the second-year social history course studies world urbanisation from antiquity to the present day . |
| 27 | The survey looks at changes in the number of medical men in practice during this period , and at their career structures , training , qualifications , practices and appointments . |
| 28 | Further work looks at links between the pattern of business development and family and community structure among Afro-Caribbeans and Cypriots in North London and Pakistanis in Birmingham . |
| 29 | Chapter 10 looks at outcomes considering the degree results , and analysing them in comparison with other students in the same course by type of degree , university and age . |
| 30 | Sales and unit growth of the small scale multi-user systems market is forecast at 6% over the period , with average cost falling from $38,000 to $36,400 in 1997 . |