Example sentences of "for [pron] at the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have not described a tenacious battle to secure compensation for a number of distinguished urologists who contracted hepatitis , believedly at a medical banquet , and for whom at the end of the day a moderate degree of compensation was — against considerable odds — secured . |
| 2 | They found their parents waiting for them at the top of a wide terrace of marble steps , and the governor 's aide-de-camp conducted them to the reception through a series of lofty , marble-floored chambers forty feet high . |
| 3 | Unfortunately we did n't have room to include the complete rules for war machines and chariots as they appear in the Warhammer rulebook , but you will find a summary for them at the end of the War Machines section . |
| 4 | And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture . |
| 5 | ‘ Whether there will be any jobs for them at the end of the day is too early to say but at least they will be getting quality training which can be a kick-start in life . ’ |
| 6 | Women have no say in their marriages : often they are married when still babies , or at least by the age of five in a group ceremonial marriage , for youths , held for them at the close of their bachelor hut initiation period . |
| 7 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 8 | When I went into town to order my new clothes , Mr Pumblechook was waiting for me at the door of his shop . |
| 9 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 10 | When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs . |
| 11 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 12 | The problem started for me at the end of a tough week when we played Leeds on the Sunday , then Everton in the Coca-Cola Cup on the Wednesday and Tottenham on Saturday . |
| 13 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 14 | ‘ I was shocked when Scot Gemmill was brought in for me at the start of last season because it came out of the blue . |
| 15 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 16 | So anything that has n't been fired will be may be fired by the end of next week so it 'll be ready for you at the beginning of next term . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , it so happens that a number of people have dropped out of the scheme for one reason or another , and there 's now a place for you at the end of the team . |
| 18 | A life of excitement and a good pension waiting for you at the end of it . ’ |
| 19 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 20 | The deposit of a variety of jade amulets for ensuring good fortune and warding off ill-luck among Fu Hao 's grave goods shows that jade had already begun to be directed to individual needs as early as the Shang dynasty , at least for one at the peak of the social system . |
| 21 | She knew that she was always quietly satisfied to have him in the cottage , to hear his footfalls on the floor above , to share with him the meal she had cooked for herself at the end of the day . |
| 22 | Then there was nothing again but the darkness ; the darkness that he knew waited for him at the foot of the mountain . |
| 23 | Hasan was waiting for him at the top of the stairs , and , as soon as he heard his guardian 's tread , the little boy sat up , sniffed the air and stretched out his hands like a cat , waking after sleep . |
| 24 | ‘ Your man 's a faceless pig to most people out on the streets , ’ said Hogan nastily , as Cowley led the way through the swing doors of the Ministry building , and hurried towards his chauffeur driven car , waiting for him at the bottom of the steps . |
| 25 | I have served a place for him at the head of the queue to buy shares in the privatised NIE . |
| 26 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 28 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 29 | Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase . |
| 30 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |