Example sentences of "with a [noun sg] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.

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1 Jenkins did quite a delivery trade , the goods being taken out by Mr. Bevis on a very old ‘ errand boy 's ’ bike with a wicker basket at the front .
2 The street looked much the same — a cul-de-sac , with a brick wall at the far end , closing the road ; and above the wall , towering above the slate-roofed houses , a ship rode at anchor in the Jubilee Dock , its masts and funnels silhouetted against the sky .
3 The scheme will begin with a pilot project at the EVM formaldehyde plant in Hungary .
4 In the same year , when a judge confronted with a boy burglar at the London Sessions was to be found pontificating against the cinema as ‘ a grave danger to the community ’ which was ‘ responsible for the downfall of many young people ’ , the prosecutor jokingly remarked that ‘ it was perhaps an example of retributive justice that one of the houses broken into belonged to a cinematograph proprietor ’ .
5 Pass through this and cross the meadow to reach a metal gate with a stone stile at the side of it .
6 Under the new system , clients will be issued with a menu card at the beginning of each week and will be asked to pick the meals they wish to eat .
7 One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister .
8 Keen gardeners and fanatical car washers may have second thoughts about lavish spraying if we end up with a water meter at the bottom of our garden to measure the amount we actually use .
9 Fashioned from galvanised metal with a brass trim at the base and brass rose , the traditionally fashioned can takes on an attractive , weathered patina as it ages .
10 He was a thin , brown man with a brass stud at the neck of his striped shirt and a sad expression as if he were on the point of tears .
11 But life in the Court of Appeal and , even more , in the House of Lords is not so strenuous as in the High Court ( or below ) , personal prestige and status are higher among the fewer , with a life peerage at the top .
12 If your Dream is to own your own business , then picture yourself playing with a toy sweetshop at the age of seven , or deciding not to be wage-slaves like your parents , or managing the household budget as an adult . )
13 Firemen were called to release British Steel worker Mohabat Ali Din , 35 , of Tollesby Road , Middlesbrough , who was trapped in his Ford Sierra car which collided with a tractor unit at the new bridge between Lackenby and Cleveland works .
14 With a longing look at the gleaming white bowl , he hastily opened the door again and stepped on to the landing .
15 To check for the sensitivity of the results , we have estimated the model with a change point at the end of 1st ( Model 1 ) , 2nd ( Model 2 ) and 3rd ( Model 3 ) quarters .
16 the roundabout er with a petrol garage at the top
17 Sherborne made a dream start when he holed out from 45 yards with a sand wedge at the eleventh hole — his second — for an eagle 3 , and two holes later sank a 20-foot putt for a birdie 3 .
18 No it 's window er blind window with a bay window at the side .
19 City had most of the possession in the opening 45 minutes , but they lost skipper Ian Butterworth with a rib injury at the interval .
20 She showed me a large bag made of toughened brown paper with a sealing device at the mouth .
21 CROWN PRINCESS broke new ground recently with a record toll at the Panama Canal .
22 The gut reaction this morning is we could end up with a bypass scheme at the end of it and no Caernarvon link .
23 Abdominal scintigrams were obtained at one to four hours and 20 hours after injection of the labelled cells , to localise the site and extent of disease using an IGE 400 AT gamma camera with a STAR computer at the appropriate channel settings .
24 Abdominal scintigrams were obtained 1–4 hours ( early ) and 20 hours ( late ) after injection of the labelled cells , using an IGE 400 AT γ camera with a Star computer at the appropriate channel settings .
25 Take a ride in a tuk tuk , a sort of motorbike with a passenger bit at the back , by far the quickest way to get around , although not necessarily the safest .
26 The exceptional stiffness of the Clio 's basic structure allowed them to select and develop a suspension layout with MacPherson struts at the front and trailing arms with a torsion bar at the rear .
27 Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records .
28 A bowling ball , and yes you guessed it , we can provide you with a house ball at the appropriate weight of ( 8–16 lbs ) for your size , absolutely free .
29 2 × 40 minute Video Cassettes , divided into a total of 8 episodes , with a review section at the end of each episode to reinforce the essential language points
30 You were wearing a blue gaberdine suit and a white blouse with a pussy bow at the neck . ’
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