Example sentences of "at [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the nick he found a reception committee from the press . |
| 2 | At the peak it made a fortune — not from building houses or office blocks but from land inflation . |
| 3 | At the reunion I mete a friend who had spent the past seventeen years teaching Russian in the services . |
| 4 | At the seminar we had a business who wanted to set up a fund to provide the artistic and cultural er facilities for these developments . |
| 5 | Well I promise I wo n't keep them more than that , but this coming from a party that 's brought about that , and then being critical of others and the lack of intent , I think the he said it right at the beginning we have a very good education system , and I 'm saying we 've got one despite this Government . |
| 6 | As I said at the beginning I love a challenge and I would put pretty well everything into making sure that Virgin Atlantic is here in twenty years ' time . |
| 7 | At the weekend they held a silent vigil in Liverpool . |
| 8 | At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 9 | At the outset it established a Select Committee on the European Communities with very wide terms of reference ‘ to consider Community proposals , whether in draft or otherwise , to obtain all necessary information about them , and to make reports on those which , in the opinion of the Committee , raise important questions of policy or principle , and on other questions to which the Committee consider that the special attention of the House should be drawn ’ . |
| 10 | At the outset he reviews a number of definitions , the main two economic ones being to associate taxes with ‘ shifting ’ and with ‘ tailor-making ’ . |
| 11 | At the door he makes a smile . |
| 12 | At the centre you need a bushy herb , such a rosemary or fennel for height . |
| 13 | Well it 's like a big lever and it has a , at the bottom it has a bar which the very high tensile steel is fixed into . |
| 14 | At the airport we bought a sheet of tourist slides ( the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace , the Forth Bridge , the pearly kings and queens of London , the Apollo moon landing , etc. ) to show the Indonesians something of our bizarre world . |
| 15 | At the Troc we had a list of troublemakers , plus police photographs , nicknames and descriptions , above the cashier 's grille . |
| 16 | However the crash crew person asked the instructor to accompany her in the fire vehicle , and on arrival at the vehicle they asked a bystander to raise the alarm . |
| 17 | She asked for an orange juice , and while he was at the bar she found a table in the window . |
| 18 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 19 | At the gate I found a workman , who had seen her jump the low wall separating the garden from the road , and then ride on towards the hills and Wuthering Heights . |
| 20 | As I look at the water I hear a distinctive slurp as a chub sucks some morsel through the surface ; then I see the rings rippling away from the spot where it happened . |
| 21 | Back at the house I found a note had been folded into the handle of the screen door . |
| 22 | They then have to try and unravel it and , in so doing , will find that it takes them in all sorts of different places until at the end they find a small present . |
| 23 | At the end she took a deep breath , before joining in the rapturous applause , wishing the lights could be turned up . |
| 24 | At the end he played a couple of sets of variations as an encore . |
| 25 | At the end it took a photo-finish camera to separate them , the Scotsman winning the verdict in 10.25 seconds . |
| 26 | At the crossroads they glimpsed a group of villagers huddled round the blackened scaffold . |
| 27 | Well look at the speed it takes a disc onto the hard disc ! |
| 28 | After he had come to collect her at the flat they joined a party of junior officers and debutantes at the Haymarket Theatre to see Pygmalion by the fashionable playwright George Bernard Shaw . |
| 29 | It was so enjoyable that at the headwall I took a line up the steepest part , just so I could play about hanging from the holds . |
| 30 | Their wings were outspread above her like a canopy , and at the side they made a white-feathered screen for her . |