Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] at [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wot 's more , one of my customers at the Inn 'as proof positive that the election was rigged . |
| 2 | Hooker Olver , the England bench reserve for a record 27 times , explained : ‘ My friends at the Stoop did n't expect to be playing for the club at Easter , but now their re-arranged league game with Orrell is on the Monday . |
| 3 | To this extent , their enemies at the time perceived them as collaborators . |
| 4 | As Guy gathered Isabel close to him , her words at the ford flashed into his mind . |
| 5 | Apart from the fact that this provides a valuable lesson for anyone unexpectedly encountering a big cat at close quarters , it explains the way in which lion-tamers at a circus manage to dominate their animal companions . |
| 6 | Birds ' nests woven onto their stalks at the base look like Vietnamese villages . |
| 7 | ‘ The way retailers are running their businesses at the moment means that they are never overstaffed . |
| 8 | They are elected by the council from among its members at a meeting held within six months of the AGM . |
| 9 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role of the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 10 | When Parliament legislates to remedy what the majority of its members at the time perceive to be a defect or a lacuna in the existing law ( whether it be the written law enacted by existing statutes or the unwritten common law as it has been expounded by the judges in decided cases ) , the role or the judiciary is confined to ascertaining from the words that Parliament has approved as expressing its intention what that intention was , and to giving effect to it . |
| 11 | At one point she had joined a group of these elderly relatives , women either widowed , de-childed or , their men at the bar talking men 's talk , temporarily joined in huddle with sisters . |
| 12 | Financial support was also given to the Royal Academy of Music 's ‘ Communication through Music ’ course on which students at the Academy perform in hospitals , hospices and homes for the elderly , thereby gaining a deeper awareness of the therapeutic and rehabilitative powers of music . |
| 13 | ‘ It means that , since the de Sciorto title dates from the mid-sixteenth century , I come somewhere in the middle of the pecking order , ’ he grinned , his eyes lidded as he moved his gaze down over her defensively folded arms , lingering on the golden swell of her breasts at the button fastening on her T-shirt . |
| 14 | A Mormon FBI man who dropped to his knees at the roadside began to pray . |
| 15 | But as his fans at the College agree , it was that determination to give 110% of himself to his audience that made Frankie Howerd , one of the greats of British Comedy . |
| 16 | Doyle voiced his criticisms at a board meeting in Stoke 10 days ago . |
| 17 | His friends at the time knew better , especially the seemingly laid-back J Mascis , who could n't eject him from the group on a face-to-face basis . |
| 18 | ‘ The Fraser girl was not like one of his strippers at a stag drinking joint . |
| 19 | Bailey offered to get one of his men at the embassy to liaise with you but I decided against it . |
| 20 | Every practising barrister knows before which judges he would prefer not to appear in a political case because he believes , and his colleagues at the bar believe , that certain judges are much more likely than others to be biased against certain groups , like demonstrators or students , or certain kinds of action , like occupations of property by trade unionists or the homeless . |
| 21 | Inevitably , the requirements both of compromise and of secrecy meant that Citrine and his colleagues at the top backed the obscurantism of the majority of the chairmen against Melling . |
| 22 | Morrow and his followers at the hospital has no connection with the Diocese of Leeds and is not supported by the Church in West Yorkshire . |
| 23 | A study of the assault made on our plans at the time reveals a number of points that were put forward as incontrovertible arguments against what we were proposing . |
| 24 | It would be very helpful to the Regional Council in preparing its case for this inquiry to have a copy of the proofs of evidence presented by your officials at the inquiry relating to the Oxford United proposals . |
| 25 | This Neutrino sea arises from the nuclear fusion reactions taking place in the countless stars scattered throughout the universe , and these minute particles pass through our bodies at a rate estimated at one million to one billion per square inch per second . |
| 26 | And if your friends at the club tell you there 's an opportunity to go upmarket , convince your boss of the opportunity and do just that . |
| 27 | Bend your arms at the elbow to lower body . |
| 28 | ‘ But , Cara — ’ Fabia started to get desperate , well remembering countless times when Cara had some notion stuck in her head and how there was no changing it ‘ — ca n't you get one of your colleagues at the office to keep the appointment for you ? |