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

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31 WHEN delegates of the Whitbread Merit Table clubs took time off from their deliberations over leagues last week to enjoy a day out at the University Match , they took the opportunity to complain to Cardiff about the legions of players who have made the journey to the Arms Park in recent months .
32 Its proposals will make what has happened up to now look like a day out at the seaside .
33 Here , a family group has just arrived at the giraffe 's enclosure on a day out at the zoo ( 1 ) .
34 Tragic Linda Wolage , 28 , and her husband Andrew were catapulted into a garden by a careering car as they returned from a day out at the zoo .
35 There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 )
36 There was a sign up at the airport — John Wayne Airport , naturally — that read CALIFORNIA : WE 'VE HAD THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY HERE FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS .
37 So I climbed into the rucksack while you were taking a pee back at The Wife 's Legs .
38 They used to ring a bell up at the hotel .
39 One of the things that we need to , to work out , and Mark 's gon na do some work on that and , and Maureen pro primarily to identify that erm we 're spending about thirty five , thirty six K a month over at the moment .
40 Five went to their usual dealer to buy cannabis or speed and , as there was a drought on at the time , were offered and accepted heroin instead .
41 He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge .
42 You would n't have been able to hear a thing back at the house .
43 And we 've got a very big computerized telephone system , so that if it does n't answer sit there with a stopwatch timing each phone I presume , it 's all automatically done and they get a print out at the end of every month giving the average time of the , the phone the , the , the phone takes to be answered .
44 There is quite a lot on at the moment cos I 've got a church meeting this evening at Flint about er ministry
45 Their seem to be a lot around at the moment .
46 He will he 'll have a bet on at the bookies .
47 That 's right yeah , I was also er doing a bit for a guy in at the time .
48 And by the time we got there we could see a fire round at the back of the the crane pedestal which was in B module where most of the oil separation plant is .
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