Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at one [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	‘ There was a scholarship going at one of the drama schools , you see , and I entered it on impulse .
2	The President looked at one of the papers before him .
3	Counsel said a soldier fired at one of the men but both got away .
4	There was a woman standing at one of the second-storey windows when Gentle reached the intersection , just gazing out at the street .
5	As he turned the corner away from the house and towards the train station , Endill was sure he saw the shape of his father standing at one of the upstairs windows , watching him go .
6	All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels .
7	The cook looked at one of the maids , " Jane , will you fetch Master Patrick a cup and saucer please . "
8	He also took the chance to visit the US during one of his vacations , and commented that , apart from benefiting from the opportunity to learn at one of the top colleges , he had also enjoyed experiencing a different culture during his time in London .
9	Last September , the authors of a report on the quality of care offered at one of the country 's leading alternative therapy centres — the Bristol Cancer Help Clinic — held a press conference to announce their interim findings .
10	The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry .
11	Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls — Rena , Hugo 's favourite house model , wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants .
12	I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated .

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