Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] at the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque .
2 They were no longer committed to a debtors ' prison at the instance of the man to whom they still owed money , to suffer indignities at the hands of a Thomas Bambridge .
3 Perhaps it would be a release to suffer extinction at the teeth of this woman .
4 Mr Wright was one of the first to give evidence at the inquests into the deaths of three students : Mayuree Taraket ; Ketkanok Chuenjai , and Malee Jenajaroen , all from Thailand .
5 3.5 With effect from carrying out the Tenant 's Works in accordance with clause 3.7 and thereafter to commence business at the Premises for the purpose permitted by the Lease
6 It 's not worthy , Councillor to try and link trivial trivial politics to score points , to score points , to score points , to score points to score points at the attacks on people with disabilities , in the trivial way that you did because you could n't remember the policy .
7 A canal , as the Duke of Bridgewater explained , had " to have coals at the heels of it " .
8 His fit of coughing echoed across the landscape , an early morning salute , as he often put it in his ‘ Jottings ’ , to an old man still courageous enough to face death at the hands of a packet of filter-tips .
9 A " works contractor " , on the other hand , is an organisation which supplies its own employees to undertake work at the premises of a client and which retains control over them whilst they are working there .
10 Buoyed up by a wave of patriotic outrage rooted in the well-established propensity of liberal England to display shame at the actions of its Governments , the left was quick to seize the opportunities presented by Munich .
11 In both of these roles he is himself exposed to close scrutiny at the hands of other politicians and the media .
12 Other UN agencies started to throw money at the problems of the territories , for example both Unicef and UNDP provided money for activities selected and overseen by the Israeli authorities , thus — however innocent the intention — allowing aid to become an instrument of control rather than support for independent development .
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