Example sentences of "to a [noun] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
| 2 | A POLICEMAN beaten and stabbed to death when he was called to a disturbance died at the hands of a brutal generation with no concept of right or wrong , a close friend said at his funeral yesterday . |
| 3 | Kujabi is related to a watchman working at the house , owned by Mr Eddie Brewer , 72 , an ecologist and former British colonial service official . |
| 4 | It required but a single coincidence , whereby an apparent answer to a prayer arrived at the appropriate time , to make him believe that his objects of supplication had powers beyond himself , and had brought him relief . |
| 5 | Staff at Darlington Memorial Hospital were justifiably angry last week after being asked to make donations to a charity based at the hospital . |
| 6 | Then she drove to a Union meeting at the factory . |
| 7 | Local leaders attributed it to a request made at the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies by the Chair of South Ossetia 's Supreme Soviet , Torez Kolumbegov , for the autonomous region in Georgia to be reintegrated in the Russian Federation [ for January referendum in favour of reintegration see pp. 38731-32 ] . |
| 8 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 9 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 10 | where loss , misdelivery or damage , however sustained , is in respect of the whole of the Consignment , to a sum calculated at the rate of £800 per tonne on either the gross weight of the Consignment or , where applicable , the tonnage computed in accordance with Condition 8(2) ( a ) or ( b ) hereof : |
| 11 | Iranian leaders in early June reacted adversely to a resolution passed at the summit on May 29 , which supported Iraq 's long-standing claim to full sovereignty over the Shatt-al Arab waterway . |
| 12 | The Moroccan news media reacted unfavourably to a resolution passed at the Sept. 9-13 session of the European Parliament for a delegation to be sent to observe the ceasefire . |
| 13 | The CBI 's conclusions are based on replies from 268 manufacturing companies and 151 non-manufacturing companies to a questionnaire completed at the end of last year . |
| 14 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 15 | Without a word Ramses led us to a boat moored at the end of the dock , a small felucca with a heavily patched sail . |
| 16 | They grabbed my arms and swung me over to a mat lying at the side then undid the strap around my ankles . |
| 17 | I went to a protest meeting at the Albert Hall . |
| 18 | Run a stringline from the top of the bank to a post set at the foot of the bank , checking for square . |