Example sentences of "[pron] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | ( He is put off by the sight of Wayne , who is pogoing furiously behind his keyboards , like someone at a Members gig in 1978 ) Erm , excuse me , but what do you think you 're doing ? |
2 | actually we , mm , at some length and had a few ideas , erm I 've got an appointment with someone at the Arts Council in a couple of weeks that the Arts Council 's got a new fund called erm consultants in research and I thought I 'd make a bid to see if we can get someone |
3 | Meanwhile , the Shah 's 707 , with the Shah himself at the controls , climbed and turned away towards the West , the source of many of his dreams and illusions , and now the object of hatred of many of his people . |
4 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
5 | ALISTAIR PRESENTED himself at the offices of the TLM in an unblinking trance of punctuality . |
6 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
7 | I left school in 1942 and got a job at the airport , which at the times we were living in always something exciting seemed to be happening . |
8 | The velvet — or baize , for the lesser mortal — was always used sparingly , tucked in behind itself at the angles of the coffin and the width of the plank at the top . |
9 | Another sharp blast of heavy rain threw itself at the windowpanes of her flat , and brought Leith , startled , out of the brown study she had fallen into . |
10 | We felt so sorry for you at the shareholders ' meeting . |
11 | The pair looked like every motorist 's bad news — the guys who leap out at you at the lights and demand money for wiping a dirty rag over your windscreen . |
12 | The cars that are always ahead of you at the lights . |
13 | Our experts will be waiting to speak to you at the venues on the days shown above . |
14 | ‘ You 've only got to look around you at the marriages of people we know , ’ said Jannie , ‘ to see that 's not true . ’ |
15 | I 'll meet you at the tights department , but you can go and have a look at the , anything else first if you want to and then come back to the tights , I 'll shall be a minute or two . |
16 | When we arrived it seemed such a friendly place , there would be 2 or 3 people to meet you at the gates and welcome you in . |
17 | In those days , everything at the Arts Theatre used to be short runs . |
18 | An odd posture , bent over — it was the girl of this afternoon , and she was going to throw something at the windows of the sitting-room . |
19 | There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads . |
20 | Do the other one have a door you know the the one at the shops ? |
21 | Was anybody at the controls ? ) |
22 | The American star , who was later arrested for harassing an officer , hurled herself at the cops as she rushed to the aide of her pal . |
23 | ‘ The poor man had a seizure , ’ she continued , busying herself at the blankets . |
24 | Dawn Allenby , a masochist if ever there was one , should have prostrated herself at the feet of Desmond Fairchild , a sadist in a trilby hat worn with the brim turned up all the way round like vaudeville comic . |
25 | Just ge go anywhere sh I 'm sure she 'd entertain herself at the shops , she 'd be quite happy |
26 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
27 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
28 | Talk of this sort was mostly to raise morale , as McFarlane was at pains to say when his ‘ Secretary of State ’ remark was thrown back at him at the hearings . |
29 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |
30 | However , when I think of him at the Departments of the Environment and of Education and Science , I realise that it probably was his finest hour . |