Example sentences of "at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The drawing and new evidence about cars suspected of having been used by the bombers , has prompted police to call 1,500 Deal residents for further interviews later this week with 50 officers at a church hall . |
| 32 | Another of his tasks might be the gathering of voluntarily offered resources at the venue , whether it 's free baize for the tables at a church fête , free mineral water or food from a local business , or the offer of cars to transport guests . |
| 33 | Example : a young minister at a church social announces ‘ Miss Jeannie MacPherson will now sing ‘ The Flowers of the Forest ’ . ’ |
| 34 | There was a crackle of static , like a public address system at a church social , then another record started . |
| 35 | From John and Kathie 's first meeting at a church Christmas party 15 years ago , it was clear that their partnership would prove one of idealism and challenge . |
| 36 | Apart from one slip-up last month , when Camilla appeared in the congregation at a church service attended by Charles and Diana , the arrangement seemed to work . |
| 37 | Now he was standing back regarding them with the faintly anxious proprietorial air of a stallholder at a church bazaar wondering whether he has set out his wares to best advantage . |
| 38 | Smokers were recruited at a smoking cessation clinic while the nonsmokers were recruited at a church meeting . |
| 39 | Once I heard him speak at a church service in Morton , and although he was an excellent speaker , there was a certain bitterness and disappointment in his words . |
| 40 | Everything expelled from other places found a haven here , including the only good pictures in the house — a couple of Rose Bartons , bought by Aunt Tossie at a Church Sale , were considered quite pretty and of local interest , but insignificant compared with the photographic portrait of the first Nicandra , standing stripped for a gallop , but without Fagan , much to his disappointment , at her head . |
| 41 | He professes to be an atheist but met his wife at the Youth Fellowship at a church in Edinburgh . |
| 42 | The Prince of Wales will stand in for his grandmother at a church service and reception for the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association in London . |
| 43 | Bishop James Xie Shiguang , 74 , from Xiapu in Fujian province , and two priests , Fr Zhu Rutan and Fr Zheng Xinzong , had been arrested in July 1990 at a religious discussion meeting at a church in Fujian . |
| 44 | If the accused takes a cross from a display at a church , he is not guilty if the cross is part of worship , not part of an exhibition : Barr [ 1978 ] Crim LR 244 . |
| 45 | Parishioners of Saint John the Baptist are so divided on the issue that the dispute is having to be resolved at a church court . |
| 46 | GOODS are needed to sell at a church fete next month in Tarvin . |
| 47 | She stars as tap teacher Mavis Turner , a chorus line dancer who never quite made it , in a screen version of the hit Richard Harris play among the motley crew of would be tap dancers at a church hall evening class . |
| 48 | It was at a church in Hertford . |
| 49 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 50 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 51 | Wright is then alleged to have spat at a spectator as he left pitch . |
| 52 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 53 | To his left , along the drive , he saw the grey-haired minister from Weem arriving at a gallop . |
| 54 | The institutional investors that charged into junk bonds in the 1980s have now headed off at a gallop in the opposite direction . |
| 55 | It is suddenly hoisted into the air by a set of teeth , and becomes so delightfully frightening that the horses snort and leap — and your jumper disappears at a gallop down the paddock . |
| 56 | Mounted on fine horses and riding at a gallop , two abreast , naked to the breech-clout , their faces covered with white , red and yellow paint in fanciful designs , and decked with plumes and feathers and trinkets fluttering in the sunshine . |
| 57 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 58 | The marquis appeared round the comer of the building at a gallop . |
| 59 | Rincewind did so , and watched the nervous Broadman , who had arrived at a gallop from some back room , lead the way up the wooden steps behind the bar . |
| 60 | Over the crest at the High Cross , erupting suddenly out of the declivity beyond , and certainly from the Welsh gate , the hard drumming of hooves burst upon their ears , coming at a gallop . |