Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Rather than disturb the patients at the hospital any more , Ace and Petion had followed the Marines to their staging area at the customs receivership , which Ace judged to be about the size of an aircraft hangar . |
2 | Wisps of smoke revealed that the cottagers were cooking their evening meals at the hearths of the small hamlet which lay to the north of the crossroads . |
3 | MERSEYSIDE 'S hopes of some sort of compensation following their opening defeat at the hands of Yorkshire came to nothing last Sunday . |
4 | — Hartlepool 's Unemployment Bowls League hold their presentation night at the Rovers Quoit Club on Friday May 29 . |
5 | Back on the pitch , the Warblers , who had suffered a surprise 22–16 defeat in their quarter-final pool at the hands of a spirited Irish Wolfhounds outfit fired by scrum-half Alain Rolland , hauled their way into the semi-finals with wins over the Portuguese Barbarians and the Froggies . |
6 | This was the claim of her friend and associate Lee Lacey who said that he had received messages of love from Doris during her memorial service at the Friends ' Meeting House , Euston Road , London . |
7 | They themselves might ‘ motor ’ down to their country retreat at the weekends but they looked with signal disfavour on the idea that the vast mass of the populace might enjoy a similar mobility and have access to pleasures which for the moment were peculiarly their own . |
8 | It empowered the Secretary of State to prescribe a common curriculum ( to be called the national curriculum ) for pupils of compulsory school age in maintained schools ( for details , see Chapter 10 ) , to set attainment targets for each of its constituent subjects at the ages of 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 , and to make arrangements for assessing how well these are met ; established a National Curriculum Council ( for England ) and a Curriculum Council for Wales to oversee the implementation and assessment of the national curriculum ; required LEAs , school governors and head teachers to ensure that the national curriculum is taught in all maintained schools . |
9 | Martin walked slowly down the street , pausing at each shop in turn to flash his beat lamp at the doors and windows . |
10 | Ventriloquist Keith Harris and his puppet star at the parties where a new version of Orville 's ten-year-old song , I Wish I Could Fly , is a hit with acid house ravers . |
11 | She was also pleased to welcome , our Liaison Officer at The Sports Council . |
12 | The man with the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat saw our rebel flag at the spreaders and let out an approving yell that sent two gulls squawking up from the garbage cans behind McIllvanney 's office . |