Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Quivers of movement , like trickles of electricity , danced over Meredith 's skin at the sound of his velvety voice . |
| 32 | And having saved John Smith 's skin at the Labour party Conference , with his rumbustious performance in the one member , one vote debate , Mr Prescot knew he was in a position to call in his debts . |
| 33 | Nevertheless , during Antony 's soliloquy at the end of the scene he refers to the murderers as ‘ butchers ’ , and ‘ bloody men . ’ |
| 34 | As this is the speech in which we see Cassius 's motives for killing Caesar , the other one I am looking at is Brutus 's soliloquy at the beginning of Act II scene I , giving his reasons for joining the conspiracy . |
| 35 | On the face of it , the Bundestag 's decision at the end of last month to abolish refugees ' automatic right to asylum was reasonable . |
| 36 | This practice , borrowed from the United States , recognises that until shares are issued they confer no rights at all , and that the rights ultimately attached to them depend on the company 's decision at the time when they are issued . |
| 37 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 38 | Innocent 's building at the Vatican was fortified with towers and an encircling wall and was meant for longer residence . |
| 39 | They were but it 's the recession and no-one 's building at the moment . |
| 40 | ‘ Words almost fail me about John , ’ Gedge told NME 's correspondent at the festivities . |
| 41 | However , the similarities were more compelling than the differences : and , by chance , the courts were considering a case of valuer 's negligence at the same time . |
| 42 | Ideology and all , can I cripple my five-year-old 's creativity at the appalling government school because I opted to work in a backward area ? |
| 43 | Numbers of people at North 's level at the NSC , the State Department , the CIA and the Defense Department knew that ‘ Ollie was up to something ’ : something hyperactive , makeshift , slightly off-centre , not to be looked into . |
| 44 | Verdeţ was pushed into the porter 's cabin at the entrance to the mine and obliged to telephone Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest with the miners ' message . |
| 45 | As the light of that winter day faded and the swirling fog closed in , the two friends took shelter in a platelayer 's cabin at the northern end of the line 's long curve . |
| 46 | In 1754 , further burials were discovered during the rebuilding of Kate 's Cabin at the southern edge of the extra-mural area . |
| 47 | He dived headlong as he reached the top , but Burun stepped out of the way , caught his son 's sash at the back as he passed , swung him round and threw him into the wreckage of the bed again . |
| 48 | Main 's removal at the instigation of Cunningham 's enemies , and the appointment shortly thereafter of Cunnan to act in his place , had , as Provost Cunningham remarked , made ‘ a very great noise ’ , and by providing this evidence of their influence , the Haldane party could argue plausibly that all of the partisans of the Cunningham faction then in office would not retain their places for much longer . |
| 49 | The pattern was similar last summer , with the premieres of David Blake 's The Plumber 's Gift at the Coliseum and John Casken 's Golem at the Almeida , while the London International Opera Festival brought Udo Zimmermann 's Die Weisse Rose , another work to have done the European rounds in triumph before landing here . |
| 50 | Youth For Peace , another branch of the Peace People , is also run from the organisation 's base at the Peace House , or ‘ Fredheim ’ ( Norweigan for peace ) . |
| 51 | ‘ Tara 's performing at the marina hotel tonight . |
| 52 | While the train is accelerating , the driver 's watch at the front goes faster than the guard 's . |
| 53 | ( Weinberg directed the Whitney 's branch at the Equitable Center in Manhattan , closed by the museum last year , from 1989 to 1990 . ) |
| 54 | Mr Biffen 's plea at the monthly meeting of Aberdeen and Kincardine NFU area executive followed on from an Ellon branch resolution urging the NFU to detail on a regular basis . |
| 55 | While one takes into account the concern of Calvin and the reformers for the balance between the light of scripture and the inner light and direction given to individuals an experience vouchsafe for countless times in both the Old and New Testaments also remembering our lord 's own use of silence in prayer and I believe the increasing use of silence in modern worship and may I also say how very impressed I was by Dr 's prayer at the opening of this assembly in which he asked for the guidance of God and indeed your own equally eloquent prayer on Sunday evening Moderator open to the prompting and leading and guiding of God 's spirit . |
| 56 | In 460 , two years after his success at the Pythia , Arkesilas achieved the crown of human ambition by winning the chariot-race at Olympia , fulfilling Pindar 's prayer at the end of the Fifth Pythian . |
| 57 | I should first like to express again the Society 's pleasure at having had the benefit of Bedu 's teaching at the Easter Course . |
| 58 | He was appointed Assistant Manager to Ronnie Rooke and , after Rooke 's resignation at the end of November 1950 , Dawes became joint-manager with Charlie Slade . |
| 59 | But the women continued to think about Hubert Gaily 's presence at the funeral . |
| 60 | A ‘ BBC Question Time ’ style debate was the highlight of Wimpey Environmental 's presence at the Environmental Technology Exhibition in Birmingham last month . |