Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 2 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 3 | It being reported to this Meeting that the Peck Measures of the different corners of Islay do not agree in size , & that many of them are deficient of the Legal Standard Measure of this Country-In order to remedy this evil it is recommended that in place of the Heaped Peck commonly used that a streak measure answering exactly to the standard measure of Islay shou 'd be substituted in place of the Heap measure , & in order to carry this Resolution into Execution the Meeting do hereby appoint the following Committee … it is earnestly recommended to these Gentlemen to have the different Pecks of the different Parishes brought to the proper Streak measure , and to have these pecks Branded with Shawfield 's Iron , and this being once done it is recommended to the said Committee to cause publish at the Parish Churches that if any person within their Bounds shall Sell or Buy with any other peck than the Peck so ascertained & stamped , that they shall be Fined at the discretion of the Baron Baillie of Islay |
| 4 | Among the nine projects benefiting from this year 's grants were Southwark , which receives £29,555 to provide floodlighting at the Orchard Sports Centre and the London Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Scheme , which gets £25,000 . |
| 5 | An important area to bear in mind when drawing up a briefing programme is the need to supply briefing at the end of the employee 's period overseas . |
| 6 | He gave important , but merely verbal assurances that the proceeds from it for the arts , heritage , sport and charities would not substitute other government funds for these areas and that he expected the cash to begin flowing at the end of 1994 . |
| 7 | They drove through the night to start unloading at the Apollo the following lunchtime . |
| 8 | The hypnotist 's instruction to keep looking at the drawing pin conflicts with his suggestion that the eyes are growing tired and will soon be closing of themselves . |
| 9 | It was after they had cleared supper and were sitting by the range with a cup of tea that the first person to arrive knocked at the front door . |
| 10 | ‘ We should not expect our tenants to have to look at the mess caused by their careless neighbours , ’ said Coun Dixon . |
| 11 | His Heswall colleague , Ian Spencer , is the only player from Merseyside to have succeeded at the pre-qualifying stage for the school and will be in France next week . |
| 12 | Then , knowing what we want the group to achieve , set a transfer price that gets each division to decide to operate at the volume we want . |
| 13 | In conventional language we talk of a pointer moving across a scale to come to rest at the mark saying " here " or at the mark saying " there " . |
| 14 | The soldier denied the barrister 's suggestion that his evidence was ‘ a nonsense and a total fabrication to justify firing at the car . ’ |
| 15 | Johnston is the only member of Roxburgh 's squad to have played at the Parc des Princes , the venue for the match . |
| 16 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 17 | He did n't expect us to come rolling out of the pubs drunk , and the Yorkshire pudding to get flung at the ceiling with the gravy running down the walls like the tears of a black madonna . |
| 18 | Previous popes had been in France , and the teaching of the school of St Victor in Paris and of Peter Abelard was known to them , but Innocent III may have been the first pope to have studied at the Paris schools . |