Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balcerowicz announced at a meeting of the Interim Committee of the IMF Bank on May 8 , 1990 , that Poland would seek a new agreement with its commercial and government creditors to cut Poland 's debt-servicing obligations by 80 per cent . |
| 2 | Before clearing the suburbs to the west Patrick stopped at a café so that they could have a quick breakfast of delicious brioches and excellent coffee . |
| 3 | After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway . |
| 4 | Jim stopped at a café on the road side . |
| 5 | On page 10 IAN LUCAS looks at a catfish set-up . |
| 6 | It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street . |
| 7 | While referring to the Treasury waggon which had been taken near Quatre Bras , von Keller 's counsel omitted to say anything about one particular carriage grouped with other captured vehicles at the village of Villers Perwin situated at a short distance from the Charleroi road near Quatre Bras . |
| 8 | Markby swished at a trailing bramble with a piece of stick . |
| 9 | Talbot went to the Admiral 's wine cupboard and prepared a drink while Hawkins gazed at a spot on the deck which was about a thousand miles away . |
| 10 | What is the assembly of Eurip European unity policies and regions and why was it necessary to send two representatives to Portugal to attend at a cost of over one thousand five hundred . |
| 11 | Mugabe declared at a press conference in the capital Harare on April 1 that the election result was " a mandate for all our policies , including the establishment of a one-party state " . |
| 12 | Gorbachev declared at a joint press conference on July 16 that " the united Germany , sovereign in every way , will say to which bloc it wants to belong " , thus effectively conceding that Germany could be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) . |
| 13 | To confuse the issue even more , at least from Catt 's point of view , her letter from Gedge , Solowka and Gregory arrived at a time when she thought that her role in the group was about to become more prominent . |
| 14 | Elizabeth Hoby died at a great age in 1609 , after spending her final days painstakingly and efficiently planning her own funeral , down to the minutest detail . |
| 15 | She feels it 's sad that Frankie died at a time when he was just becoming popular with a younger audience . |
| 16 | Bernice stared at a faded yellow cloth , hanging from the ceiling . |
| 17 | Lucy felt at a disadvantage . |
| 18 | Richard laughed at a vision of the nipple cut off and stuck like a baby 's dummy in Martin 's mouth . |
| 19 | Some time later I heard a chink of glass and looked up to find Dennis sitting at a nearby table with a half-empty bottle of chilled rosé . |
| 20 | ‘ We are not going to be in business long term , ’ Mr Crandall said at a dinner with the reporters . |
| 21 | Ellen halted at a short wooden bridge , one of many which spanned the streams dissecting the main road through the town . |
| 22 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 23 | These devices hit the headlines a few years back when two cars in the United States collided at a closing speed of some 70 miles per hour . |
| 24 | Gleeson picked at a bloodied hangnail . |
| 25 | LOWER Ormeau residents staged a demonstration on Saturday to protest at a Royal Black Preceptory march past the bookies shop where five Catholics were murdered by loyalist terrorists last year . |
| 26 | Miss Hazelwood sat at a high centre desk , seemingly reading a book . |
| 27 | Moreover , it 's surely no coincidence that PWI comes at a time when anti-trust allegations against Microsoft are reportedly still under investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission . |
| 28 | Lucie seemed at a loss for words . |
| 29 | On 22 October 1980 Gabriel Ferrucci , president of Raybestos Manhattan 's international division , flew into Cork to appear at a joint press conference with IDA at which the company announced its intention to pull out of Ireland . |
| 30 | Ginny stopped at a zebra crossing in Fulham Palace Road . |