Example sentences of "at a [adj] [noun] 's [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Most white people , ’ Hall told Time , ‘ have never been to a party at a black person 's house . |
2 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
3 | Andy is a store detective at a major women 's clothes store in north London . |
4 | Anything to break the monotony of waiting , yet being at a split second 's notice to move , to any incident , anywhere in the city . |
5 | Only thoughts , actions , moves and attacks which have been practised until they are second nature will be available at a split second 's notice . |
6 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
7 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
8 | Paul gets deeply drunk at a New Year 's Eve party , where those friends who already have children get wheezily maudlin and dilate on the sheer cost of small kids versus the sheer joy of small kids ; while those who do n't have kids elbow him constantly , calling him a bit of a sharp-shooter , a devil , a sperm-bank , a prong , a peopler of nations and an irresponsible git . |
9 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
10 | Further out , in the fashionable village-suburb of Breasbrough , civic spirits were high at a New Year 's Eve party , where left-wing councillors , left-wing teachers , left-wing journalists , left-wing social workers and a few agnostic entrepreneurs raised their glasses and looked forward to the exhilarating confrontation of the approaching steel strike : they were high on a recent freak by-election in the neighbourhood which had reversed the national trend to the Right and given , in their own view , a renewed popular blessing to their defiant , daring programme of high social expenditure . |
11 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
12 | Mr Johnson gave the two girls up to six allergy tablets , after a row with his wife at a New Year 's party . |
13 | Without doubt giving customers and crew that good feeling , it also provided a photo-opportunity at a recent visitor 's day . |
14 | However , there were attempts at a private member 's bill : the Rape ( Anonymity of Victims ) Bill was introduced by Mr F.P. Crowder , and there was another in 1975 by Jack Ashley , stemming from concern that raped women were not reporting the crime because of fear of press publicity . |
15 | It was the AMA 's Peter Westland who , at a private King 's fund College seminar on phase two of community care implementation last April , called on Wordsworth to help express his fears about care management 's impact on service users . |
16 | Dulé saw him fall , and ran , swung himself up the smooth wall of the redoubt where the gunners were hard at work , and found himself at a mere arm 's length from one . |
17 | Photos of youngsters at a National Children 's Home project taken by the star adorn six fundraising BT phonecards . |
18 | Now that he 'd told her he wanted the club , Adam would probably expect her to keep him at a wary arm 's length . |
19 | For example , the tribunal may have been motivated by resentment at a particular member 's share of the market , or have suspended the member , not for bona fide reasons , but because of the opportunity it gave their firms to acquire some of the suspended member 's customers . |
20 | And the examiner was arrested only after he made passes at a military policeman 's wife . |
21 | Yet , in sharp contrast , village life here moves little faster than at a slow donkey 's pace and has a simple , rustic feel which gives it a special charm . |
22 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
23 | A rook , picking at a dead rabbit 's eyes , hesitated before he lumbered up and flew away . |
24 | ‘ Speak on , ’ said I with more encouragement than a Brahman temple dancer at a Brown Shirt 's bump supper . |
25 | You were at a known dealer 's house , so where exactly does that leave you ? |