Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Agatha Christie 's reading was wide-ranging can not now be denied , but , even so , the source of one of Hercule Poirot 's favourite ploys — almost , it could be said , his trademark , the gathering together of the suspects at the climax of one of his investigations — is surprising . |
| 2 | Now the clothes , The Diamond and Pearl Collection , are being marketed to the public from this month and Apache was invited to try them out along with the models at the launch — and he was delighted . |
| 3 | Along with the fitters at the tunnel , looking after the locos and slushers in the tunnel and all the rest of the |
| 4 | That is a reference back to the events of chapter 16 , and strange though it is , it is no more extraordinary than their wish in Exodus 16 that they had been killed together with the Egyptians at the time of the Passover . |
| 5 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |
| 6 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 7 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
| 8 | So taken it down to the tills at the front , cos they move quicker |
| 9 | As I 've said before , we ca n't be all over the flats at the same time . |
| 10 | Huge puffy ones started springing up all over the hands at the friction points in Vincente 's system of finger knots . |
| 11 | this one , look at the back , I think the reason it 's so big is to go in on the sockets at the back , put , you can put two tapes on it |
| 12 | When you turn over the pages of the Supplement , pay no attention at first to the volume numbers at the top left-hand corner of the pages ; look only at the headings at the top right-hand corner , which are in alphabetical order . |
| 13 | A supply aircraft , carrying weapons to the contras , was shot down by the Sandinistas at the beginning of October 1986 ; and on November 3rd a Lebanese magazine , Al-Shiraa , broke the story of American dealings with Iran . |
| 14 | Experienced Temple Fortune locals seem to prefer to peer away from the posters at the television set perched atop the soft drinks cooler . |
| 15 | Frenchay Common was where the great W.G. Grace occasionally played his cricket , with brothers and family friends , away from the crowds at the county ground . |
| 16 | He said the Government now aimed to improve public services by taking the cash away from the bureaucrats at the Northern Regional Health Authority and Durham County Hall , for example , and handing it to the schools and GPs who knew better how it should be used . |
| 17 | But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire . |
| 18 | you sure its not in the things at the side ? , what at |
| 19 | The brass shop was laid out with the rough brass stores on one side , whence the castings passed to the machines , thence to the benches , and from there to the polishers , next to the platers and finally to the lacquerers at the other side of the shop , each operation in turn bringing the parts further across the shop . |
| 20 | And , like I said , I want to know everything you hear , what anyone 's got to say , from the pimps to the tarts through to the doormen at the clip-joints and the managers of restaurants . |
| 21 | Then the men took to lying under the mango tree , away across the fields at the crossroads of several paths . |
| 22 | Activists encamped for two months in the square until they were cleared away by the police at the end of May . |
| 23 | That was legislation was put through by the Liberals at the time , would it be ? |
| 24 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 25 | This may mean that he had remained in the region when the court set off for the midlands at the end of June . |
| 26 | The massive head , still with the marks at the side of the throat where the gills would have been , sighed . |
| 27 | Hugh asked after his father-in-law had wandered off into the shadows at the end of the terrace and they heard his stick tapping along the stone floors . |
| 28 | Scheiner was still in the wings at the time of the trial . |
| 29 | er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more . |
| 30 | Cut carefully through the leaves at the top of the pineapple so that some remain attached to each half of the fruit . |