Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 2 | There they had to wait , often for hours at a stretch . |
| 3 | I needed the money and it sounded O.K. But sitting around for hours at a stretch without a word from anybody I was able to do a lot of thinking . ’ |
| 4 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 5 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 6 | We soon learned to give animals the right of way in the swamps , sitting for hours at a time in the dugout , watching elephants plod by . |
| 7 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 8 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 9 | Anyone who wants a portable to carry around and use for hours at a time on batteries , will love the 320SLi as much as I did . |
| 10 | Although many college teachers still have such job titles as lecturer , senior lecturer or reader , few teachers are happy reading aloud to their students for hours at a time . |
| 11 | Their riffs about the current state of their underwear would continue for hours at a time . |
| 12 | She did n't know if Betty knew how long Beuno had been there , so endeavoured to give the impression that she could babble away on the topic of cooking game for hours at a time . |
| 13 | Has a majestic soaring and gliding flight , with wing-tips splayed out and upturned , often remaining on the wing for hours at a time . |
| 14 | Choose 7/8in mats where workers remain for a full shift ; 1/2in mats at work stations used for hours at a time ; 3/8in mats in traffic areas . |
| 15 | It 's gone now , but at the time mentally handicapped patients were locked up in it for hours at a time . |
| 16 | Typically the fisherman is a lone black smudge hunched on his bait-box for hours at a time . |
| 17 | erm I could lecture you for hours at a time on the subject . |
| 18 | A word of advice — do n't sit for hours at the knitting machine , particularly if you are a comparative beginner . |
| 19 | His brother Gawain ignored him , gazing at the salt cellar or the window for minutes at a time and stolidly chewing . |
| 20 | The Finn also threatened in the air when he came in for headers at the back post . |
| 21 | She even wondered if it might not have been Mandy 's laughter-filled anecdotes about summers at the lodge that had coaxed this deep ache of loss within her to the surface of her consciousness . |
| 22 | This means that the emphasis on modelling demand for fuels at the level of the individual household will , in itself be novel , and will allow account to be taken of the enormous variation that exists in household income , demographic characteristics and appliance stocks . |
| 23 | CW reported that , during discussions at the specialist gardens , YBG and LBG felt that they would like the facility to handle and update their own records on their own equipment , with batch mode updates being sent to E on disk . |
| 24 | Often it is transported out of the upland valleys and spread out as fans at the upland edges . |
| 25 | Another surprise for passers-by at the entrance to High Wood may be the ghostly figure of a woman ! |
| 26 | While the women were competing the men were Bowling for Nine-pins at the back of the inn . |
| 27 | This order is consistent with the established relationships between subjects at the time that the scheme was first published ( 1876 ) , but produces some strange collocations for today 's literature . |
| 28 | A local authority has been found guilty of maladministration for not telling residents before giving planning permission for floodlights at a rugby stadium . |
| 29 | Bundespost Telekom says that operating profit in 1992 fell 4.6% to the equivalent of $4,157m ; after Telekom has made its required subvention to the federal government and its two loss-making sister units , it will be left with nothing to add to reserves — it is required by law to transfer 10 pct of its annual turnover to the federal government and to make up for losses at the Postdienst mail service and Postbank postal banking unit , Reuter notes . |
| 30 | Finally , network analysis offers a procedure for dealing with variation between speakers at the level of the individual rather than the group ( see further 6.8.3 ) . |