Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Elizabeth Williams , who lived at a time when universities were so enlightened that they would actually permit women to sit examinations ( but not , alas , be awarded a degree ) . |
| 2 | Report from Mr N McLeod re the vandalism perpetrated by local youngsters who congregate at a memorial seat outside the Primary School Annexe . |
| 3 | There were Feliks and Dorothy , still handsome at 75 and 70 , who met at a tea dance in 1946 and married 40 years later . |
| 4 | But the 19-year age gap is insignificant to the couple , who met at a nightclub earlier this year and who now share Margot 's west London home . |
| 5 | These questions , among others , exercised a group of educationists who met at a seminar on accountability sponsored by the SSRC and held at Cambridge ( England ) in 1977 . |
| 6 | Now based in Oxford they 're a truly international group , one English , one Swiss and one Norwegian , who met at a drama school in Paris . |
| 7 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 8 | TWO pensioners who met at a wedding ceremony half a century ago have become close friends after being reunited by the Daily Post . |
| 9 | She admitted being the busty brunette who shouted at a man : ‘ Get a load of these ’ . |
| 10 | At the same time , many critics show notable preference for stories with a moral conclusion over those which seem to offer simple entertainment ; and any critic who looks at a book from the angle of the potential reader rather than of the book itself is in danger of being tempted by false hierarchies . |
| 11 | The concept of an unspecified information need is further developed by Wersig , who looks at a need situation as a problem situation and states that , " the notion of problem treatment process enables us to look at the stages which play an important role within the organism before any behaviour can be observed . " |
| 12 | Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan . |
| 13 | Seventy-six Romanians who came to Britain for a Pontins holiday are asking for political asylum , they 're among two hundred of their countrymen who arrived at a Pontins camp near Bristol on Sunday for a weeks stay . |
| 14 | Reason , one might think , for the wary traveller to duck behind the luggage lockers , but no , the assembly listens rapt as John Berger ( for it is he ) embarks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 15 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 16 | Hence the two highly ‘ cultured ’ individuals who meet at a party and find they have nothing in common to talk about . |
| 17 | Julie , who taught at a local school in a notoriously rough , tough area of the city , shrugged her shoulders . |
| 18 | The informal petty bourgeoisie is a term that is rarely found in attempts to outline class structure in Latin America , but Portes ' usage refers to small-scale entrepreneurs , who have similar characteristics in the class analysis to the dominant class , but who operate at a very different level and have a somewhat precarious existence . |
| 19 | Esther Dyson , a pretty deaf woman aged 23 without any speech , who worked at a thread-mill in Ecclesfield and lived with her brother , who was also deaf without speech , was accused of the murder . |
| 20 | I heard the story of a lad , from the Bishop Auckland area like me , who worked at a farm in Teesdale for two shillings and sixpence a week . |
| 21 | The Thurlstone militia returns of 1806 name 129 men , of whom forty-one were weavers and twenty-one were clothiers , each of them humble men who worked at a loom in their own home . |
| 22 | Sheila Baughan , who worked at a local school , was found holding a telephone . |
| 23 | There is clearly force in this ‘ equal treatment ’ argument , which was later deployed in defence of the Schlunk decision by the United States delegation at a Special Commission of the Hague Conference held in April 1989 ; but as between the United Sates and the German Federal Republic it is German plaintiffs who emerge at a disadvantage , for German law has no doctrine similar to that of involuntary agency of which they could make use . |
| 24 | For example " the members of the family " who gather at a funeral may be related to the deceased in all sorts of different ways but the group as a whole is unlikely to be associated with any particular household or married couple . |
| 25 | One of the men who died at a processing plant in Hereford was fire fighter David Morris from Hereford . |
| 26 | A 16 year old who spoke at a Young Enterprise presentation admitted that he was not much of a public speaker and that he had become disaffected with school where he had ‘ failed ’ regularly . |
| 27 | The contributions of family members who live at a distance should not be under-estimated . |
| 28 | I have seen some fine players who compete at a high level bring in another line , between the service line and the baseline . |
| 29 | In the 1840s most working men supported the Chartists , who aimed at a secret ballot and adult male suffrage . |
| 30 | The outlook is not entirely bleak and it is reckoned that of those who enrol at a clinic , for whatever reason , about 40 per cent will be drug-free within ten years , although within that time , too , 15 per cent of opiate addicts may well be dead . |