Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier . |
| 2 | ( Houses now have bathrooms and inside toilets , instead of a garden privy or a toilet at the bottom of the yard . ) |
| 3 | She did n't know if women preferred poetry or flowers or a night at the movies . |
| 4 | It would seem more useful to reserve that much over-used tag of ‘ middle-class ’ for those higher up the social and financial scale than Benjamin — those who lived in larger houses with servants , who sent their children to public schools and could afford a day at the races or a night at the opera , suitably dressed . |
| 5 | There was just enough time for a picnic at Llanfair Caereinion , or a look at the workshops according to taste , before we commenced the return journey . |
| 6 | There is a rich seam of ‘ Europeanism ’ running through fascist thought , as a quick perusal of Nazi newspapers or a glance at the memoirs of British fascists like Diana Mosley reveals . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others . |
| 8 | The proverbial " Never venture , never win " is pronounced with a rise or a fall/rise at the word " venture " . |
| 9 | Also , no person can be a member of the Appeal Committee if they are a parent or a teacher at the school concerned . |
| 10 | OK , you ca n't buy a hand bag on the Rue de Rivoli or a box at the opera but you do n't have to skimp on the house red . |
| 11 | If you are using a game or an exercise at the start of a session , choose something appropriate . |
| 12 | Although a notice at the entrance to the Room indicated that the Survey was being conducted , and invited visitors to co-operate by completing a questionnaire , a pilot survey in 1980 had shown that a satisfactory response rate could be obtained only if this was reinforced by a personal approach to visitors . |
| 13 | FAB-MS has also succeeded in sequencing peptides that could not be analysed any other way — for example a toxin from Australia that a group at the Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry at Cambridge University sequenced recently . |
| 14 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 15 | At the same time , an experienced solicitor may well be able to give a better legal opinion and be a far better advocate than a beginner at the Bar . |
| 16 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 17 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 18 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 19 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 20 | People living in new housing , whether estates , flats or garden cities , were more satisfied with their houses and neighbourhoods than were those living in the older areas , although there was more than a hint at the loss of street-corner sociability . |
| 21 | KEVIN McKeever has been transfer-listed by Glentoran after less than a season at the Oval . |
| 22 | For instance , a concert attracting 70,000 at Wembley would have to pay more than a gig at the sock and Warthog in the High street . |
| 23 | A tall , brown iron cylinder with a wheel and a dial at the top stood beside him . |
| 24 | But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope . |
| 25 | He was promoted to the rank of Captain and a desk at the Admiralty offices in Whitehall , which meant an end to the family 's wanderings and a large apartment in a turreted neo-gothic building overlooking the Thames in London 's legal district . |
| 26 | It had a round glass eye protruding from the centre of one face , and a lever at the back . |
| 27 | All I felt when I went to his surgery was a dryness of the throat and a quivering at the knees , and providing I kept my eyes tightly shut all the time I managed to get through the visit fairly easily . |
| 28 | Nowadays , the Shatin rice fields have long vanished beneath a new town of skyscrapers and motorways , with a racecourse at one side and a university at the other . |
| 29 | But oh we we 'd we 'd a lot of good fiddlers in those days and a girl at the piano . |
| 30 | ‘ We spent an hour and a half at the post office in Middlesbrough before we finally got into the sorting office to find that 2,500 of our 36,000 leaflets had not been sent out . |