Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It seemed only a matter of days before I was standing astride my bike at the gates of Sonning Common , together with my good friend Richard Smith ( who I think was twice as mad as me as he did n't have to do it ! )
2 Duncan at L.A.B. dropped off my gear at the shops as he did n't have my address , when I went to get it only half was handed over .
3 I must express my disgust at the Cats Protection League Darlington blacklisting Coundon .
4 Needless to say , I walked out of my job at the kennels .
5 Then I would be an artisan , quietly learning my trade at the feet of a master and passing it on in turn to my apprentices .
6 Thank you and all my friends at the Women 's Institute for the lovely flowers , cards and letters sent to me during my illness .
7 I do think that the struggle for national liberation , certainly in my country at the times when we were most successful in that struggle , were the times when more opportunities were opened up for my own liberation and my own freedom of choice as a woman .
8 Laverne looks over my shoulder at the clouds , because it is easier than confronting his own oozing paint .
9 Without such pressure even my execution at the hands of the Khad was a possibility … your efforts and support greatly encouraged me and my family , for when I came to know of them I was indeed strengthened by them . ’
10 I spend much of my time at the shops ; wandering through the aisles , faltering , never knowing what to buy .
11 Nearly all felt their experience at the hospitals , to which they were initially referred , to be stigmatizing and degrading .
12 Klaus Töpfer , the federal environment minister , has capitalised on his country 's environmental angst by devising a bold principle : that companies should have a legal obligation to take back — and to recycle — their products at the ends of their lives .
13 Members of the Darlington Association on Disability expressed concern about how members were to reach their headquarters at the Friends ' Meeting House in Skinnergate .
14 They are Alexander the Great ; the Silver Shields ( a Macedonian corps d'élite of the early hellenistic period ) ; and the Spartans up to the date of their defeat at the hands of the Thebans at Leuktra in 371 .
15 Many Arabs , including many who are nominally members of the anti-Saddam coalition , can not conceal their glee at the attacks on Israel .
16 Newton Aycliffe 's Christine Brunskill also avenged her defeat at the hands of Middlesbrpugh and Cleveland Harrier Marie Stansmore .
17 She did not resist , but narrowed her eyes at the children .
18 " Goodbye , " said this kindly decent woman , her distress at the ways of this wicked world written all over her .
19 The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls .
20 Anyway , that evening her hair was swept up over her ears at the sides and fastened back with two tortoise-shell clips , her eyes seemed dark as dark , and I just could n't get over her .
21 Even many voters who dislike and fear the Labour Party are tempted to register their disgust at the Tories ' failures by voting Liberal Democrat .
22 They 're sure to have the time of their lives at the Pirates Club or Club 16 , enjoying hours of fun with newfound friends and leaving you with new-found freedom .
23 But at the same time last year 42 people had lost their lives at the hands of the roaming death squads .
24 Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees .
25 Too many people have been upset by their experiences at the hands of a hairdresser . ’
26 Although they registered their disapproval at the MPs ' vote with the Government , the council group leader , Richard Lyle , said : ‘ Alex Salmond has the clear backing of the Motherwell SNP council group as does the SNP parliamentary group .
27 The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather .
28 The 20C has not been kind to the Jews and the community in Prague has never recovered from its suffering at the hands of the Nazis .
29 After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial .
30 It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage .
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