Example sentences of "[adv] at a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the view of the chief constable of west Yorkshire , Mr. Peter Nobes , that the upsurge in the taking of motor vehicles has probably occurred since the change in the Criminal Justice Act 1988 , which reduced the unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle to a summary offence triable only at a magistrates court ? |
| 2 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 3 | This told how the poet , having taken opium , dreamt backwards through time to seek his love in a ballroom , on his way to a medieval scaffold , at a well in ancient Greece and finally at a Witches ’ Sabbath , where her kiss ended in death ( see page 56 ) . |
| 4 | It blossomed forth at a Managers ' meeting when ‘ somebody from Marketing ’ gave an in-depth talk on selling skills and creating opportunities to sell , using Branch data . |
| 5 | Protestors blocked the site for two days , forcing the waste to be stored temporarily at a police station . |
| 6 | Or Munni , a slum dweller in Delhi , arrested with 11 others and kept overnight at a police station where she was stripped and beaten . |
| 7 | They challenged a man who was seen acting suspiciously at a horses ' rest home near their RAF base . |
| 8 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 9 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |