Example sentences of "at a [noun] ['s] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |
| 2 | Namibia requested some US$270,000,000 for each year of its 1990-92 reconstruction programme at a donors ' conference in New York on June 21-22 . |
| 3 | At a donors ' meeting in Paris on July 27-28 , 1989 , US$200,000,000 of the estimated US$600,000,000 needed for the economic reform programme was raised . |
| 4 | A joint Mozambique government and World Bank report , released at a donors ' meeting in Paris on Dec. 10 , warned that half of the country 's 16,000,000 people faced starvation , largely as a result of the civil war . |
| 5 | TWO barmaids claimed social security benefit while working at a Kiki 's bar in Darlington , a court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | Great Fire of London started second of September in sixteen sixty six started in the early hours at a baker 's house in Pudding Lane . |
| 7 | This is probably what will happen at a shareholders ' meeting on March 13th , thanks to a closing of ranks by Germany 's top industrialists . |
| 8 | On April 16th the Philippine Supreme Court decided that the three Cojuangcos could vote at a shareholders ' meeting on April 19th , although the shares themselves remain sequestered . |
| 9 | Electronic stencil cutters , offset litho machines and many audio.visual reproduction facilities are , in today 's circumstances , beyond the budget of small and medium-sized schools , but can be provided at a teachers ' centre for co.operative use . |
| 10 | Fuji is offering 13 readers the chance to win a half-day session at a photographer 's studio in their area ( entries will be judged regionally ) , or you can arrange for him to come to your home ; if you go to the studio , your travel expenses are covered . |
| 11 | It is believed she claimed she was assaulted and kept captive at a friend 's flat in Chelsea after Sarfraz gave her a lift in his car . |
| 12 | He died at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going into convulsions and frothing at the mouth . |
| 13 | Mr Venables of Lilac Grove , Whitby , Ellesmere Port , collapsed at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going out for a drink in May . |
| 14 | Coroner 's officer Kerry Lovegrove said Ms Raymond died in hospital after collapsing with breathing difficulties at a friend 's flat in London on Thursday . |
| 15 | Now we were ready to transport her carefully from our garage over to the buildings at a friend 's farm at Weston Underwood — yes , he flies microlights too ! ! ! |
| 16 | He said he 'd put them at a friend 's house for safe keeping , and the friend just happened to have gone away on holiday . |
| 17 | You take me away for the weekend and then come back and act as if you 've just met me at a friend 's house for the first time ! |
| 18 | A MAN accused of killing Marie Wilks arrived at a friend 's house with a thick smudge of blood on his car the day after she disappeared , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 19 | My case is at a friend 's house down The Street . |
| 20 | Robert Montague was staying at a friend 's house in Cornwall one long , wet weekend in early December when he realised the moment had come to strike . |
| 21 | His career as a musician failed to take off and in a fit of depression one night he got drunk before he was due to on stage at a trawlermen 's club in Hull . |
| 22 | Jersey assistant chief officer Barry Simpson said last night : ‘ We were trying to trace Roderick at a contact 's home in Wimbledon . |
| 23 | Er tailoring , at a tailor 's shop in Stapleford . |
| 24 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 25 | Once a huge golden eagle circled above a wreck and I intercepted a couple hiking to call at a Crofter 's cottage for assistance because I was loathe to leave the area to the eagle . |
| 26 | At a footballer 's dinner in Glasgow , the Irish international Liam Brady once joked that McAvennie 's team-mates nicknamed him ‘ Ginger-Pubes ’ , adding with glee , ‘ I can assure you Frank 's blonde hair is n't natural . ’ |
| 27 | Civic Forum , the movement which had emerged to lead the November 1989 revolution in the Czech lands and which with its Slovak sister organization Public Against Violence had won the June 1990 general election [ see p. 37542-43 ] , elected the Federal Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus as its first chair at a delegates ' meeting in Prague on Oct. 13 . |
| 28 | New Forum , which had first emerged in September 1989 [ see p. 36895 ] , decided at a delegates ' conference in Leipzig on Jan. 6 not to form a political party but to remain a citizens ' movement which was " open to citizens of different ideological and party opinions " . |
| 29 | At a managers ' jamboree in Beijing , he dressed up as Confucius . |
| 30 | We resent the grinding down of business which is conducted at a snail 's pace for twenty-eight days . |