Example sentences of "at a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But none of these incidents could possibly have matched that witnessed at a masquerade organized by Lord Tylney at Wanstead House , Essex , in 1768 , as recorded by an Italian noblewoman staying with the Tylneys at the time .
2 He grinned at her , then swished at a shrub with his cane and asked , with studied casualness , ‘ And will you stay here at Bishopstow ?
3 I think , was it Colin I was talk , we were looking at a Porsche the other day , and he was drooling over this Porsche , and yet it does n't do anything for me .
4 One could imagine her at a shires garden party or a race meeting .
5 The team receive their specially restored Volvo 144s at Pretty 's Bodyshop in Scole , near Diss , at a handover ceremony so they can begin their run-up to the start on April 17 .
6 But this as I have suggested poses massive theoretical problems , particularly in the attempt at a materialist position which would locate variations within changing social relations .
7 I had detected a smell and taste of tobacco — and I knew she enjoyed , among other things , a furtive drag at a Woodbine .
8 Often the volume of urgent management business at a governors ' meeting is so great that the welfare of children in a caring environment can become a marginal issue .
9 France for the 60th birthday party of Steve 's mother , Lynn , at a villa once owned by writer Somerset Maugham , which the Wyatts regularly rent .
10 They hope to find clues to the structure of the highly complicated social organisation which hints at a hierarchy with ‘ leaders ’ and ‘ subordinates ’ .
11 Get some volunteers to come and ‘ be canvassed ’ at a buffet supper .
12 The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along .
13 At a buffet you ensure that elderly and infirm guests , and those who have travelled long distances , have seats near the buffet table so that they are not obliged to stand for a long period .
14 Tritsch Tratsch had been mounted for Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet ( the first performance was at a matinée on 20 September 1947 ) and was an immediate success .
15 Physical activities can also sometimes cause difficulties since restricted visual fields can make it difficult for a child to catch a ball , wield a bat effectively or aim at a goal .
16 When a human being does X in order to do Y , the achieving of Y is his reason for doing X. When an animal does X in order to do Y , he does not do X for a reason , even though he is aiming at a goal in doing so .
17 We have arrived at a multilevel view of style , which is composed of elements of dualism and pluralism .
18 Perez hints at a tie-up with Information Builders Inc for its Focus 4GL ( possibly the EDA/SQL middleware for accessing various databases too ) .
19 All records for attendance , which will be around 12,500 , at a mid-week club match in England will be beaten .
20 Shetland , for example , is 338 kilometres ( 210 miles ) north of Aberdeen and attendance at a mid-week meeting on the mainland could involve five days away from home for a councillor from the northern isles ( Wheatley 1969:292 ) .
21 When I returned to the UK in 1937 , just as the Expansion was getting underway and when the RAF was some 33,000 strong , one could see more people at a mid-week match at Arsenal .
22 A Chelmsford motorist was hit over the head with a golf club , during an altercation at a hamburger stall on the A12 near to the town .
23 The driver suffered serious head wounds during the incident at a hamburger stall near a school in the town 's Princes Road between 2.45 am and 3 am on Sunday .
24 She was later seen at a hamburger stand in the car park behind the Guest House where she met her death .
25 Shortly afterwards , she was seen at a hamburger stand in the car park behind the Guest House where she met her death .
26 The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it .
27 Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern .
28 She 's at a kind of college of citizenship in Bath . ’
29 Nenna had just time to say , I must be going , before she came back , tottering at a kind of dignified slant , and holding a large tin of cheese straws .
30 ‘ Which is why you decided to try your hand at a kind of modelling that would pay better , ’ he said .
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