Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] 's [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much for Armstrong 's attempt at rationalization five years earlier . |
| 2 | He dates this earlier layer to 1735–6 , perhaps put together for Bach 's recital at the Dresden Frauenkirche in December 1736 . |
| 3 | Sutcliffe tapped the side of his long nose with his index finger as he uttered these words , dislodging his spectacles and causing them to crash into his tea-cup — for this conversation took place in the Senior Common Room , not long after Robyn 's arrival at Rummidge . |
| 4 | The channel would start just upstream from Bolter 's Lock at Maidenhead . |
| 5 | In 1867–8 he taught unhappily in Newman 's school at the Oratory in Edgbaston before joining the Society of Jesus . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to know what you told the copper , what he told you , why you sent Sal down to Cawthorne 's place at the weekend , what you 're going to do about her now , what you intend doing about Alec Reynolds now that he 's dead and why you 're trying to give me the bum 's rush . |
| 7 | Annunziata looked in to Julia 's room at fairly frequent intervals to turn her pillows or sponge her hot face , but would not let her try to talk . |
| 8 | RISING reggae star Apache Indian got in on Prince 's act at a glitzy fashion launch for Joe Bloggs ' latest coup — a range of stagewear commissioned by the pop idol for his recent world tour . |
| 9 | So began a glorious episode in Hindu legend , leading not only to Ravana 's defeat at Rama 's hands , but , centuries later , to problems for the secular forces ruling modern India . |
| 10 | God 's ‘ legal transactions ’ are not the law of the land , not of Abraham 's land at any rate . |
| 11 | The two men talked it over with Hayling 's boss at the GLC , Hilary Wainwright , who was head of the Popular Planning Unit . |
| 12 | At five o'clock , after giving Faye a foot massage to stimulate circulation , Belinda was free for the evening , and the unfinished painting was put away in Faye 's studio at the back of the house to dry over the weekend . |
| 13 | There was another awful silence then , because no one , not in Preston 's hearing at least , had yet mentioned the babby inside of her . |
| 14 | As far as beating down and killing went , nothing very much was achieved , for the enemy were now everywhere in flight , such as could run , none staying to fight , not in Ramsay 's sector at any rate . |
| 15 | Its first flights were from Buglawton , then Somerford Park and finally from Stoke-on-Trent 's airfield at Meir . |
| 16 | I used to ride both horses in the early days to take them to be shod over to Lowson 's Smithy at Romaldkirk . |
| 17 | As she committed her life once more to God 's service at the conclusion of one of the big meetings an old retired officer who had been specially invited knelt next to her at the mercy seat . |
| 18 | And there is a third story of Beatrice passing provocatively by Modigliani 's table at the Rotonde . |
| 19 | Somewhere in all the moves the body contriving to lose its boots which then turned up in Steve 's bag at school . |
| 20 | Michael Lee had grown up in London 's dockland at a time when prejudice towards the Chinese seemed to be at a height — and especially half-caste Chinese children , and there were few enough of those . |
| 21 | The second Tyrannicide pair exists in fairly complete copies in Naples ( probably from Hadrian 's Villa at Tivoli ) and fragments of others . |
| 22 | Drove up to FM 's Lodge at about 6.30 pm , had a bath there and changed my clothes . |
| 23 | He turned up at Michael 's door at half four . |
| 24 | This was followed years later by ATV 's look at lesbians , ‘ The Important Thing Is Love ’ ( 1971 ) : bizarre and reactionary it may have been , but at that time the mere presence of ‘ real lesbians ’ on TV was a revelation and lifeline for many women . |
| 25 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 26 | ‘ So I see , ’ Alyssia replied in a stiff voice , wondering what was going on in Piers 's head at this masquerade . |
| 27 | Even when the lorries coming out of Galloway 's yard at the angle of the street splashed mud across the pavement and their exhaust fumes glazed the windows with an oily film Aggie persevered . |
| 28 | Her father took a telescope from his pocket and stared out of Grace 's window at the wreck of the Forfarshire . |
| 29 | Sequent was also told the NT client could ship at the end of this month , simultaneously with system 's launch at Comdex Spring/Windows World . |
| 30 | MILLWALL bounced back from Saturday 's defeat at Twerton Park , thanks to a blistering four-goal first half burst . |