Example sentences of "[noun] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Leading hotels have arranged election night dinners — £35 a head at the Dorchester , £75 a head at Cliveden , former home of Nancy Astor . |
| 2 | Tears stung her eyes a moment at the thought of her sister losing her identity ; Jezrael asked herself if the grief was for Ches or selfishly for her own loss . |
| 3 | His glorification of the subtle and simple cocks a snook at the overblown excesses that have given Paris couture the kiss of death . |
| 4 | There were production problems early on too , which cost as many as 500 cars a day at the Halewood plant . |
| 5 | Rugby Union : Botha a ghost at the feast |
| 6 | The presence of the Seoul 100 metres silver medallist might have attracted a few more through the turnstiles had the Scottish AAA not agreed to keep his entry a secret at the request of the athlete himself , a fact which inevitably leaked out leaving the promoters somewhat embarrassed . |
| 7 | And erm they 're loyal to the society because it , they know really it 's partly through them supporting the Guilds that we are able erm I do n't know whether I would get the membership there if you 've got , you see we pay a subscription to , see it costs five Pound a year at the moment to be , to be a member of the Womens ' Guild , which we , we send dues as I say to these three sections you see . |
| 8 | Er it was , and he was only paying him twenty two pound a week at the time . |
| 9 | Although Baker once earned £58.17 a week at the NME , he is now a millionaire several times over , appearing as a game-show host ( Win , Lose Or Draw ) and asking housewives if they 'd swap their two packets for one on Daz adverts . |
| 10 | DeKalb High School principal Jed Dunbar is reluctant to allow visitors a glimpse at the 1984 year book with rare pictures of Cindy . |
| 11 | The corrie cradles a loch at the foot of a trinity of towering near-vertical buttresses of quartzite supported on a sandstone base : a spectacular and distinctive formation . |
| 12 | He had looked after the Camden Palace and was earning £270 a week at the Hippodrome on that dark June night . |
| 13 | It is not generally known that there are more than 1,000 applications a week at the Home Office for political asylum from new arrivals . |
| 14 | Ravenstonedale area provided as many as 1000 pairs of stockings a week at the height of the stocking trade . |
| 15 | I have now returned to live in London where I teach for two days a week at the Royal Academy Schools ’ . |
| 16 | He was Con Fenton , a retired farm worker who did a bit of jobbing gardening and spent an average of three days a week at The Laurels . |
| 17 | All the students spend two days a week at the centre , they also spend time at their original schools and on work experience . |
| 18 | She often visits her parents — her father still works on the farm seven days a week at the age of 72 — but she has no plans to swap her desktop computer for a tobacco setting machine . |
| 19 | HIDDEN COST : Sheets cost an extra £8.75 a night at the Holcombe Hotel |
| 20 | Security Minister Michael Mates said yesterday that no amount of killings would win terrorists a place at the conference table . |
| 21 | If anything unusual occurs at one of these phases a fixation at the relevant phase occurs . |
| 22 | In the age of monumentalisation a new architecture is created , in a radically redesigned temple : a long , narrow room , its focal point a cult-statue at the back looking out through an entrance-porch at the east end . |
| 23 | At the end of April the average price of a basket of seven crudes monitored by OPEC was $15.37 per 42-gallon ( 184-litre ) barrel , down from $17.12 a barrel at the beginning of the month . |
| 24 | Four months after beginning a salicylate free diet a fistula at the site of the stricturoplasty required resection . |
| 25 | Myeloski had insisted on buying Duncan a pizza at the latest Pizza Hut . |
| 26 | An upward trend in nickel prices continued , the price reaching $11,375 a tonne at the end of August . |
| 27 | Their current training programme means two nights a week in the gym , one night running six miles , two outings a day at the weekend in their single sculls , a 6.30am outing once a week as part of a national squad eight then two more sculling outings have to be fitted in during the weekdays . |
| 28 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 29 | Theirs was a marriage blanc ; Harvey was occupied for eighteen hours a day at the Ministry of Transport where he was one of two Parliamentary Secretaries with responsibility for roads . |
| 30 | Now they 'll train five hours a day at the rink which just a few months ago was forced to close . |