Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at the [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The announcement was made yesterday at the People 's Palace museum on Glasgow Green . |
| 2 | It was a Saturday night in February , and Jonathon Blagrave had done well at the town 's market . |
| 3 | The policy has been applied nationwide at the company 's 100 locations after a pioneering attitude survey at Reading , where 81 per cent of the workforce were found to be non-smokers . |
| 4 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 5 | Evan 's botanical records , kept meticulously for three decades , were placed immediately at the NCC 's disposal and still underpin its botanical data base . |
| 6 | Situated almost at the water 's edge on a deserted beach 25km north of Malindi , the emphasis at the Che Shale is very much on food and relaxation . |
| 7 | She had a family of four , and for the past ten years or so she has worked voluntarily at the Citizen 's Advice Bureau . |
| 8 | They had shown the cluster of dark low-roofed buildings huddled together at the road 's side , reaching far back into the hillside . |
| 9 | ‘ What the hell , ’ the Maggot said , and he wrenched the plane round in a tight turn until we were aimed plumb at the island 's southernmost tip , then he dropped the nose ready to make one high speed and low level pass above the Cay . |
| 10 | I did not think much of the CPRS blunderbuss which seemed to be aimed firmly at the Government 's feet . |