Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a limited number of people will be allowed to address the councillors for or against a proposal at the meeting . |
| 2 | But which of us , locked behind a desk or in a queue at the supermarket check-out , has not had an overwhelming desire to drop everything , run into the street , hail a passing cab and make for the nearest airport to catch a plane to anywhere ? |
| 3 | ( iv ) Any contract by an estate owner or by a person at the date of the contract entitled to have a legal estate conveyed to him or her , including a valid option of purchase , a right of pre-emption or any other like right ( an " estate contract " ) . |
| 4 | And as a mother at the time di do you remember having problems getting food and things during the War ? |
| 5 | His marriage ended , he was distracted by love , and for a while at the time of the oil crisis it was hard to make a sale , but towards the end of the Seventies and into the Eighties , things picked up . |
| 6 | Try a variegated spotted laurel ( Aucuba japonica ) such as ‘ Variegata ’ or ‘ Crotonifolia ’ ; a Choisya ternata ‘ Sundance ’ ( golden foliage and the bonus of fragrant white flowers in spring ) ; the green and gold ( Elaeagnus pungens ) ‘ Maculata ’ ; and for a low-grower at the front of a border , Euonymus fortunei ‘ Emerald ‘ n ’ Gold ’ . |
| 7 | They were married on 3rd June at the Grange Church in Kilmarnock and after a reception at the Bellisle Hotel , Ayr , they re-visited Blackpool once again for their honeymoon . |
| 8 | The Lada pulled away from the parked jet and towards a gate at the side . |
| 9 | Fiona chose a short dress in a pale pink shade called blush made of silk dupion decorated with pearls and sequins and with a bustle at the back , a creation by designer Marianne Jessica . |
| 10 | The words went around in circles like a hoop being bowled down a corridor — a long corridor of white-washed walls — and with a door at the end of it . |
| 11 | These physical pressures demand a leaf that is small , dark , and with a point at the end ( a ‘ drip tip ’ ) to jettison surplus water like a gargoyle . |
| 12 | Many shirt manufacturers leave the wings too short and cut the collars too low and without a loop at the back to hold the tie from rising to the top ( or , poor sod , over the top ) of the collar . |
| 13 | The wave was bigger than expected , although half an hour later , and on a bend at the Rea , Hempsted , Robert Diamond hit the bank in his own glassfibre craft and cartwheeled through the air before grasping the other boat . |
| 14 | The road leading into the pleasant village of Austwick branches from the A65 and at a fork at the north end of the village a left turn , unsignposted , climbs through a leafy avenue into Crummackdale , reaching open country where it is crossed by an unsurfaced lane coming from Clapham . |
| 15 | Erm I suppose having this great exten extended crane there does give a good impression of height , but , the action is here and i it 's a little small in the frame and , but although I 'm sure , you know , there 's quite a fe I imagine there 's a lot of people standing around watching and so on , but as a photograph at the end of the day I 'm not sure it has quite enough impact to be erm terribly interesting . |
| 16 | David Emanuel , has an enviable clientele , but with a daughter at the College , he agreed to take charge of the charity event . |