Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a relatively small administrative staff , all employed at the company 's St Helens head office , and a number of brewery workers who are split more or less equally between the St Helens and Northwich sites . |
| 2 | Here , a family group has just arrived at the giraffe 's enclosure on a day out at the zoo ( 1 ) . |
| 3 | He will be best remembered at The Foster 's Oval for his faultless administration of the Surrey Young Cricketers ' programme . |
| 4 | It would be truer to say that the regime which enters the war is usually discredited at the war 's end , probably because of its supposed lack of adequate provision for the armed forces in the final pre-war years . |
| 5 | The prosecution says it was deliberately aimed at the inspector 's head . |
| 6 | First , if the plaintiff had passed on the relevant tax to others , the taxing authority could not be said to have been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , and he was not therefore entitled to recover . |
| 7 | Although as yet there is in English law no general rule giving the plaintiff a right of recovery from a defendant who has been unjustly enriched at the plaintiff 's expense , the concept of unjust enrichment lies at the heart of all the individual instances in which the law does give a right of recovery . |
| 8 | Fingers are also pointed at the Society 's two tame MPs , Michael Colvin and Sir Nicholas Bonsor . |
| 9 | Also elected at the league 's AGM were chairman David Gray ( Glynnis Bar ) , vice-chairman Chris Mulholland ( N Irish Horse ) , treasurer Nigel Craig ( Imperial ) and senior referee Colin Cushnahan ( Diamond Bar ) . |
| 10 | Mr Mladenov followed his appointment as Communist Party General Secretary with a speech clearly aimed at the country 's dissident movement , which has been growing . |
| 11 | Excellent though Johnson has so far proven at the explorer 's notes , Boswell threatens to outdo him regarding Raasay . |
| 12 | The condemnation by Pecham of those seizing and wasting church property was particularly aimed at the king 's exploitation of the temporal lands of vacant bishoprics . |
| 13 | Yet it is Osborne 's drama which now seems strident , sentimental and old-fashioned , while Miss Bagnold 's , lovingly revived at the King 's Head , Islington , continues to sparkle and delight . |
| 14 | This procedure is sometimes followed when a " branch " county court has a long defended action which is more conveniently heard at the judge 's main court in some large town . |
| 15 | Then other members of the panel , the Western Regional Coordinating Committee on Predator Control ( WRCC-26 ) , sent a letter to a rancher ‘ apologising ’ for comments Black allegedly made at the committee 's annual meeting in Waco , Texas . |
| 16 | As we have noted , surveys on the poll tax conducted in the first half of 1990 mapped not only the considerable public hostility to the tax , but also the fact that the blame for it was firmly laid at the government 's door . |
| 17 | He was allegedly detained at the town 's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoon shopping expedition went wrong . |
| 18 | The Committee acknowledged that the report is primarily aimed at the government 's policy for shifting the balance between food production and environmental care . |
| 19 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |