Example sentences of "[verb] at a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubbish will be sorted at a site in northern England and turned into commercial products including compost made from food scraps and paper and an array of items using recycled plastic . |
| 2 | ‘ Fancy laughing at a woman in that condition ! ’ |
| 3 | She was educated at a boarding-school in Hipperholme , near Halifax . |
| 4 | Educated at a school in St Andrews and at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Lapworth graduated in 1893 from Mason College , Birmingham . |
| 5 | He was educated at a school in Ilkley and at Balliol College , Oxford . |
| 6 | Born in 1913 in Silesia , the descendant of a Turkish soldier who had settled in Poland after being captured by the Poles at the Siege of Vienna in 1683 , he was educated at a Gymnasium in Warsaw and at the Universities of Warsaw , Berlin and Bordeaux , where he studied history and journalism . |
| 7 | Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes , MP for Wimbledon , who served as a medical officer in the Life Guards and was recalled in the Gulf war , protested at a reduction in the number of Foot Guard battalions . |
| 8 | June 1 : Piper L–4 Grasshopper destroyed when it crashed at a rodeo in Antioch , California . |
| 9 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 10 | They had arranged to meet at a pub in Soho , not far from Helen 's flat . |
| 11 | ( The restaurant is closed on Tuesdays when guests are invited to dine at a restaurant in San Gimignano . ) |
| 12 | If you happen to stray into an area of mixed day and artificial lighting , say at a window-table in a café , beware ! |
| 13 | They discovered that the pair were also trading at a stall in Abingdon and by mail order . |
| 14 | They discovered that the pair were also trading at a stall in Abingdon and by mail order . |
| 15 | We stopped at a gap in the hedge as the road swung round to the left . |
| 16 | A designer looks at a table in a mariner different from a housewife or a furniture manufacturer . |
| 17 | It 's mildly encouraging now , though , when Tod looks at a woman in the street . |
| 18 | They trained at a farmhouse in the hills just outside Perugia . |
| 19 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 20 | The walk starts at a gate in the roadside wall at this junction , opposite a copse of trees marking an old Quaker burial ground . |
| 21 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 22 | A car and the garage in which it was parked at a house in Filey Road , Scarborough were gutted by a fire thought to have been caused by an electrical fault on the vehicle . |
| 23 | It occurred at a moment in time when reading represented the chief leisure activity , apart from sex and drinking , for the British population . |
| 24 | Fire fighters from Stockton put out a fire in a potting shed at a house in Bishopton Road , Stockton . |
| 25 | The measure used was simply the total number of accidents reported at a junction in this period . |
| 26 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 27 | The Reverend Dr James Massey , General Secretary of the Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , teaches publishing and bookselling at a workshop in Bangladesh . |
| 28 | For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’ |
| 29 | ANGRY scenes erupted at a meeting in Darlington last night as the British National Party tried to gatecrash an environmental debate . |
| 30 | Communication Processes : Alternative Channels and Strategies for Development Support is a collection of papers presented at a seminar in Kenya on development communication . |