Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores . |
| 2 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 3 | DeVreer typified the kind of Los Angeles thinking at the time among the youngsters who listened to his vitriolic demolition of the Californian life . |
| 4 | Here Nevile de Moraes of William Osborne looks at the FAB 3 story from the builder 's point of view . |
| 5 | Taken aback , he mentioned the football match to be fought on New Year 's Day between the Repertory company and the pantomime cast of Treasure Island appearing at the Empire . |
| 6 | A survey of the art of Roy Lichtenstein continues at the FAE/Musée d'Art Contemporain , Pully/Lausanne , until 31 January 1993 . |
| 7 | A survey of the art of Roy Lichtenstein opened at the FAE/Musée d'Art Contemporain , Pully/Lausanne , at the end of last month ( to 31 January 1993 ) . |
| 8 | Mustakimzade 's argument against the Muftilik of Molla Yegan occurs at the end of his article on Molla Fenari . |
| 9 | Members of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain arrived at the Visitors Centre for a visit , part of which involved a site coach tour . |
| 10 | Without it , the colonies , the commerce , the navigation of Great Britain lie at the mercy of the House of Bourbon . |
| 11 | The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu . |
| 12 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 13 | In that regard , does my hon. Friend agree that the commission that the Secretary of State has set up under Professor Alexander to look at the way in which primary school children are taught is particularly welcome ? |
| 14 | ‘ With George Courtney retiring at the end of the season , we 're hopeful that somebody from the North-East will get on the Football League list , and with luck , it could be me . ’ |
| 15 | That 's fine if you say yes , but your client comes in , you forget all about Joe Bloggs sat at the back |
| 16 | Each member of the back row handled in a drive off a scrum and when the ball came back Andrew looped round Jeremy Guscott to score at the posts . |
| 17 | Then there were the Paris student riots , the Biafran conflict and scenes of devastating suffering and starvation ; Yasser Arafat became head of the PLO and enlisted thousands of young people into his army ; Muammar Gaddafi threw out the Libyan monarchy and installed himself as his nation 's leader and hero of terrorist factions everywhere ; the streets of Ulster became a battle zone with troops , fire bombs and unbelievable scenes of street-fighting ; Jan Palach , a twenty-one-year-old Czech student set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square to protest at the Soviet invasion of Prague . |
| 18 | Only 92 men at arms and 2 priests began the route-march , for Balboa was a prudent organizer , keenly interested in security , and he insisted that the others from Santa Maria remained at the base camp , denying them their expected encounter with immortality . |
| 19 | So in fact Ibrahim arrived at the river first ? ’ |
| 20 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 21 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 22 | Claire Samways blasted the ball off Alison Vance , the Portadown keeper , but it fell to Jeanette Turner loitering at the post and she spun on the ball firing it in from an acute angle . |
| 23 | Will the Leader of the House find time today to plan a journey from south Norfolk to north-west Norfolk to look at the local health services ? |
| 24 | But her desire to be a ballerina was more than just an adolescent fancy and she returned to New York to study at the American School of Ballet . |
| 25 | It was recognised that Russia should obtain the Kuril islands and Sakhalin from Japan and that she should regain the naval base at Fort Arthur forfeited at the end of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 . |
| 26 | On the way back we stopped at Horstead Keynes to look at the Carriage and Wagon Dept . |
| 27 | Northern region is headed up by Ronnie Noble based at the Northampton office . |
| 28 | A new installation by Robert Gober continues at the Dia Center for the Arts , New York ( to 20 June ) . |
| 29 | The Duchamp exhibition curated by Pontus Hulten opens at the Palazzo Grassi ( 21 March-4 July ) and coincides intentionally with a show of drawings by Victor Hugo , better known for his novels such as Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame , at the Ca Pesaro ( 15 March-13 May ) . |
| 30 | Instead of attending the meeting a dissident group of members led by Chandra Shekhar convened at the home of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal . |