Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She threw the sponge at the taps in disgust , and registered the peal of the doorbell at the same time .
2 Profit is normally seen as a flow over time whereas wealth can be described as a stock at a point in time .
3 Charles had ensured he completed his royal duties in Anglesey before rushing to be by their side at the school in Berkshire .
4 Wilson treated the majority with caution prior to his defeat at the polls in June 1970 .
5 There had been an attempt at a revolution in Russia , but then nobody concerned themselves much with the eccentricities of the world south of Cathcart or east of Camlachie , unless it might touch on trade .
6 To cite a small example from my own research , anyone wishing to examine , say , the strange attempt at a revolution in Britain in January 1941 that went by the name of ‘ The People 's Convention ’ will have difficulty in the British Library .
7 There was a brief attempt at a sit-down in front of the police lines , and a ragged snatch of ‘ We shall overcome ’ was sung .
8 POLICE in Lisburn are investigating an arson attempt at a house in Lemington Place in the town .
9 Typical computer operating systems use ( and continue to use ) ‘ command line interfaces ’ where a user enters a syntactically correct command at a prompt in order to give an instruction .
10 Scales got up from his seat at the table in Wycliffe 's little office but Wycliffe waved him back .
11 Comment from Morton Westlake centred on how jolly good the scones were , how you could get a jolly food tea at the Waldorf in London , and the astronomical prices which some had paid for their seats at the forthcoming Test match at Lord's. it was the Old Stager who brought them back to the match in hand .
12 I bought myself a mug of tea at the counter in order to pay for something for a change , then I sat and waited for Kathleen .
13 It was intended to produce a secure annual income of £17 , of which £10 was to be devoted to the salary of the schoolmaster-priest in Stockport and £4 6 8d to the priest at the chapel in Longdendale .
14 London was chosen as the administrative headquarters , and Jacques Attali , formerly a special adviser to President Mitterrand of France , was elected president for an initial four-year term at a meeting in Paris on May 19 .
15 Our distaste and disgust at the events in Germany are shared 100 per cent .
16 Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square .
17 A MAN accused of holding his girlfriend hostage at gunpoint at a house in Darlington for two days over Easter appeared in court yesterday .
18 Richard worked as a panel beater at a garage in Frampton on Severn .
19 ‘ The very next job I did after Butterflies was a Greek tragedy at a theatre in Leatherhead ’ , says Andrew .
20 A YOUNG boy fights for his life in a Warrington hospital , a young mother buries her soldier husband in Edinburgh , a young worker opens a package with a Scottish postmark at an office in Huntingdon and it explodes in her hands .
21 The crew tried to sail her through a narrow gap at a bridge in Purton .
22 For the few hours , the day or few days ' duration of the " event " , their labour force at the location in question increases many times in size .
23 Grossly updating our estimation of surviving Airspeed Oxfords , Jonathan Spinks has found a cache of no less than four substantially complete ( see photos ) airframes and six or so in poor condition at a site in Canada .
24 Distressed relatives : The scene at the house in Coronation Road , Carrickfergus Angela Curran : ‘ Popular girl ’ By Martin Hill and Nigel Gould
25 Shrewd and observant , the Rat is the perfect aide-de-camp , keeping guard at a theatre in Munich where Marco is in danger from kidnappers , watching in the rain under a bush in the garden where a certain prince sympathetic to the cause is to be given the sign .
26 As they headed west , three Welsh officers saw the vehicle at a hotel in Capel Curig , Snowdonia .
27 Police said a number of suspect devices were found inside a vehicle at a checkpoint in Coalisland , Co Tyrone , and a number of arrests were made .
28 Lord Wilberforce ( whose words I have also quoted ) had second thoughts in an extra-judicial capacity at a seminar in Canberra ( Symposium on Statutory Interpretation , Canberra , 1983 , p. 13 ) where he referred to a case in which the minister on two occasions during the passage of a Finance Bill stated expressly that the provision was not intended to tax a particular class of beneficiary .
29 The soldier stopped a motorist at a checkpoint in Cookstown , Co Tyrone , and was given the tin of Quality Street .
30 He attended the Liverpool School of Pharmacy and began work at a pharmacy in Blackpool where he met his future wife Betty .
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