Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 2 | The growth of the colonies was likely to force new departures in policy and legislation on the British government ; the American population rose from about a quarter of a million at the beginning of the century to about two million by 1776 . |
| 3 | TERRY and Richard Betts , from Mannings Heath in Sussex , issued a statement of intent by reaching the turn in the fourth round of the Father and Son tournament at West Hill in 34 — level par in wind and pouring rain — despite a seven at the par-four third . |
| 4 | He stood before her wretchedness like an incompetent at the scene of an accident . |
| 5 | Smith drew for a 4 at the first . |
| 6 | The man who so impressed Jack Nicklaus in last year 's Open struck a four iron to eight feet for a two at the next and added three more birdies . |
| 7 | A six-iron second shot reduced the 15th to an easy birdie , he narrowly missed for a two at the next and then finished three , three with first a seven-iron and then a nine-iron which landed close to the flags . |
| 8 | Norman birdied the 11th , coaxed home a six-yarder for a two at the 13th , and surged ahead with a two-shot swing coming on the next green . |
| 9 | If one stroke settled Wadkins , it was his second putt for a four at the first hole . |
| 10 | Colin Magee , of Douglas , receives our accolade for a hole-in-one at the demanding 188-yard second ( stroke index 6 ) at Rowany Golf Club , Port Errin , Isle of Man . |
| 11 | He was shouting at the top of his voice into the microphone but save for a few at the front of the crowd , nobody could hear a word because someone had cut the amplifier cable . |
| 12 | Capitalism is a system of producing profit and gain for a few at the expense of others . |
| 13 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 14 | He had gone 3 , 2 at the 11th and 12th , then followed it with a three at the 14th , where he hit an eight-iron to a yard . |
| 15 | It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt . |
| 16 | Lyle , with an eight at the 11th , his second hole of the day , never repaired the damage and his 75 after a 71 on Thursday left him perilously placed at two over par , ‘ probably one too many ’ , he guessed . |
| 17 | A kink at the end of the shaft provides an ‘ S ’ shape , with an arm-rest at the end . |
| 18 | Julie Hall , the 1987 English Champion who was to finish as high as third , had an opening 82 which took in an 8 at the 12th where her 2-iron second took off in a gust and ended in rough so deep that her third was an air shot . |
| 19 | In the final analysis , collective security was founded on what Nizan referred to as the Soviet formula of " treaties accessible to everyone " , not on the Hitlerian formula of " treaties accessible to a few at the exclusion of everyone else " , Nizan ceaselessly denounced all attempts to reduce international diplomacy to what he disparagingly termed " private agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 20 | Sergeant Graham Ellery was pictured on a sunlounger at the villa in France where Fergie canoodled with Texan boyfriend John Bryan . |
| 21 | The burial customs of the Parsi sect involve dead bodies being exposed on a grating at the top of a Tower of Silence . |