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

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1 The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge .
2 At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end .
3 Crew all a bit over-excited at the moment — if I hear another joke about ‘ I was going Caracas back there ’ I think I 'll strangle someone .
4 I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … .
5 There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree .
6 But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House .
7 ‘ It was a bit harrowing at the train station this morning , ’ he admitted yesterday .
8 The application , made under the name of Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs , Kim Yong Nam , followed a decision announced at the end of May that North Korea was dropping its previous insistence on a single Korean seat at the UN .
9 The ground radio had reports of a gang shooting at the corner of La Brea and Rodeo , and Provenzano dipped the chopper to the west and flew at 130 mph to reach the site .
10 One Soviet journal questioned why people ‘ in certain Atlantic capitals … want to fasten the word ’ neutrality ’ to Afghanistan 's non-aligned policy' and concluded that ‘ the ‘ neutralisation ’ label conceals a course aimed at the elimination not only of the government now in power but also of the very system established by the April [ 1978 ] revolution ’ .
11 2 years on , Sean Gooch is serving a 5-year jail term for causing death by reckless driving , a sentence upheld at the Appeal Court last week .
12 TOP industrialists from the United States travelled to Snowdonia to hold a board meeting at the site of their latest acquisition Austin Taylor Communications Ltd at Bethesda .
13 This interpretation has proved to be compatible with other results , including the finding that a click located near the end of a clause tends to elicit longer reaction times than a click located at the beginning of a clause ( Abrams and Bever , 1969 ) .
14 Some women wore a cloak fastened at the shoulder or breast , and some gathered clothing in at the waist with a girdle , usually secured with a buckle .
15 A chariot moves at the speed of the creatures pulling it .
16 Again a scientist stands at the point which has at present been reached within a long tradition of enquiry .
17 In fact I need a hair cut at the moment .
18 It is not everyone who can boast a Spitfire rebuild at the end of the cabbage patch , but with Spencer masterminding and a couple of chaps from the King Air days — two years later the contents of 35 cardboard boxes in pristine Spitfire formation bearing Spencer 's distinctive red livery , graced the skies .
19 LATE IN THE AFTERNOON Frankie found himself standing awkwardly by the kitchen door wearing polished shoes that pinched his toes and a shirt fastened at the neck with a large safety-pin .
20 The day Vonetta came to my flat to talk to me , she was wearing jeans , a white camisole top , and a shirt tied at the waist .
21 A thin-faced man , balding , in a shirt open at the neck to reveal gold chains , a woman , obviously beautiful in spite of the quality of the photograph , with her hair tied under a scarf Princess Grace style , and another man with a look of the Mediterranean about him whose face was partially obscured by sunglasses .
22 A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries .
23 Cath , can you ever remember whether we 've had a photograph taken at the recruitment fair ?
24 Without a word Ramses led us to a boat moored at the end of the dock , a small felucca with a heavily patched sail .
25 Such a practice cuts at the foundation of Aristoteleian notions of male and female difference and constitutes in itself the act of revolt — though the challenge it issues is more veiled than the more overt social questions asked by Hunter or Kelly .
26 A quiz organised at the launch by Delta Holidays , with a prize of a trip for two adults to Euro Disney , was won by Kevin Chambers , of Birkhall Road , Thorntree , Middlesbrough .
27 Well , it 'll be nice if you get a club going at the youth club , because they wo n't use it in the morning
28 She was just in the middle of doing her hair when she heard a light tap at the door , followed by the sound of Candy 's voice .
29 A LIGHT emerged at the end of the tunnel for Greatham road safety campaigners last week .
30 Before the authorities get too enthusiastic about reports on a fall in illegal drug use by white , middle-class high school seniors , a study conducted at the University of California found that young people who do experiment with drugs are usually better adjusted than kids who abstain from drugs completely .
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