Example sentences of "have [verb] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 2 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 3 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 4 | And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students . |
| 5 | This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment . |
| 6 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 8 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 9 | A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn . |
| 10 | Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s . |
| 11 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 12 | One only has to look at the halving of the value of the youth training allowance and the way in which young people between the ages of 16 and 18 can no longer claim benefit , including housing benefit . |
| 13 | It has advanced at the pace of its peoples and must continue to do so . |
| 14 | Even when the miraculous promise of steadily falling costs has faltered at the point of delivery , a further cast-iron prediction has been installed , and the search for the nuclear philosophers ' stone has continued with a renewed and fiery zeal . |
| 15 | Olive Booth , lieutenant Colonel in the Salvation Army and a grand-daughter of its founder , has died at the age of 98 . |
| 16 | Alexander Camaro , the Berlin artist , has died at the age of ninety-one . |
| 17 | OLIVIER MESSIAEN has died at the age of 83 . |
| 18 | The contralto Alfreda Hodgson has died at the age of 51 . |
| 19 | The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness . |
| 20 | The former Gloucestershire MP , Lord Ridley , has died at the age of sixty-four . |
| 21 | The former miners ' leader , Lord Gormley , has died at the age of seventy-five . |
| 22 | The actor , Robert Morley , has died at the age of eighty-four . |
| 23 | The comedian , Les Dawson , has died at the age of fifty-eight . |
| 24 | The man who first described the Gloucestershire Regiment as ’ The Glorious Glosters ’ has died at the age of eighty nine ( 89 ) . |
| 25 | The actor , Raymond Burr , star of TV 's Perry Mason and Ironside series , has died at the age of seventy-six . |
| 26 | A DARLINGTON man who worked in the same menswear shop all his adult life has died at the age of 73 . |
| 27 | The Dowager Lady Grimthorpe of Ampleforth has died at the age of 90 . |
| 28 | A former inspector in Durham police has died at the age of 77 . |
| 29 | A FORMER mayor has died at the age of 86 . |
| 30 | This is all she has to do at the beginning of the week . |