Example sentences of "[verb] at the [noun sg] office " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , according to Home Office memos shown both to New Scientist and to Computing magazine , ‘ the computer systems might be linked to form a distributed network encompassing the whole country ’ , with the centre of the network located at the Home Office ADP unit in Merseyside . |
| 2 | Open exhibition spaces will have to be air- conditioned and a number of experiments on how to achieve this are being carried out in the Bioclimatic Rotonda , located at the Expo office compound . |
| 3 | As with other tax allowances , this is not a cash benefit that can be claimed at the post office . |
| 4 | It had been delivered as she paid her daily visit to the Casa Guidi or otherwise would have languished at the post office , returned as unclaimed . |
| 5 | The data are to be collected at the Patent Office in London . |
| 6 | 9.30am Liz arrives at the catering office and gets out the floats for the refectories and union bar . |
| 7 | Enquiry should be made at the court office as to a particular court 's practice . |
| 8 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |
| 9 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 10 | He looked up quickly and there , half silhouetted in the twilight , stood the wiry , curly-haired boy he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 11 | Cleveland Group of the Ramblers , 7 mile walk , meet at the Post Office , Guisborough , 2pm . |
| 12 | Cleveland Group of the Ramblers , seven mile walk , meet at the Post Office , 2pm . |
| 13 | Barnard Castle Group of the Ramblers , 8 mile ramble of paths , bus to Winston and return walk to Barnard Castle beside the River Tees , meet at the Post Office , 1pm . |
| 14 | So , anybody entering the exhibition is encouraged to stand on a spot at the bottom of the stairs , and they place in the token that they 've bought at the box office , as they do so , they get flooded in light , and the special computer voice made by the university takes you through into the exhibition . |
| 15 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 16 | Gary fancied the uniform of the Coldstream Guards when he arrived at the recruiting office . |
| 17 | The occasional crank letter was invariably weeded out the moment it arrived at the sorting office at the Royal Family 's own Post Office within Buckingham Palace . |
| 18 | To begin either action , the plaintiff must file at the court office a formal request to the registrar , now the district judge , to issue a summons to commence the action together with the particulars of claim . |
| 19 | ‘ Fair enough — I kept you waiting at the Company office . |
| 20 | We hoped it would be waiting at the post office at Tamanrasset , the last town before the Niger border . |
| 21 | She sometimes signed it over to me if she needed it urgently and had n't time to queue at the post office . |
| 22 | It may train its advisers sufficiently to be able to give para-legal advice in those cases which do not require professional assistance ; it may refer the client to a solicitor ; it may arrange a rota scheme whereby a solicitor attends at the CAB office to see clients ; it may try to appoint its own solicitor . |
| 23 | If you feel that you might benefit from using the Counselling Service you can make arrangements to see a counsellor by telephoning , writing to , or calling at the campus office . |
| 24 | Alford Grammar school also had a hand in the education of Captain John Smith before he went to Louth and Thomas Paine , famous for abolishing slavery in Pennsylvania and for his written works , in particular ‘ The Rights of Man ’ , lived here for several years when he worked at the Excise Office . |
| 25 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 26 | David Lynch , who worked at the Passport Office , admitted his part in a racket to slip the documents on to the black market where they were worth £40,000 each . |
| 27 | I worked at the billeting office until the school reopened . |
| 28 | The witnesses were people who worked at the registry office . |
| 29 | To claim your goodies , you need to arrive at the box office after 10.00am on the date of the film you want to see , bearing a copy of that day 's Independent . |
| 30 | When The Elder Statesman received less than adulatory notices , and failed to succeed at the box office , he was noticeably calm in his reaction . |