Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE TUMBLE straight back on the enormo-bus after the gig and travel for five hours to New York in preparation for playing at the NY Academy two nights later . |
| 2 | A case for staying at The Lygon Arms . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 4 | We may not all want to be ‘ artists ’ , producing and performing work , but arts events can provide another accessible route for looking at the world in relation to disabled people . |
| 5 | The rules contain no provision about standing at the hearing stage , but the basic test of sufficient interest appears to apply at the hearing stage as well as at the leave stage . |
| 6 | The American visitor wrote out the cheque after staying at the £16-a-night City of London hostel . |
| 7 | You may make a switch of this kind after starting at the Bar . |
| 8 | Over the last 20 years there has been a move away from looking at children and adults in isolation towards looking at the needs of both , in terms of the family . |
| 9 | In 1952 he became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music before retiring to Fife in 1964 , where he continued to teach for many years . |
| 10 | Following her sister 's death in early infancy , her parents ' divorce when she was three years old , and her mother 's remarriage , Marguerite was brought up at the Earls Court residence of her mother and her mother 's third husband , Albert Visetti , a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London . |
| 11 | Accounting and Business Research is edited by Bob Parker , Professor of Accountancy at the University of Exeter and Chris Nobes , Coopers & Lybrand Professor of Accounting at the University of Reading . |
| 12 | For a short period from 1952 to 1954 he was Professor of Conducting at the Warsaw Conservatoire . |
| 13 | Shares in Pentos fell by an alarming 20% last week after the group issued warnings that pretax profits for 1992 would be ‘ significantly below ’ market expectations and that its final dividend would be reviewed ‘ in the light of trading at the time of the preliminary announcement in March ’ . |
| 14 | Remembering the humiliation of arriving at the Geneva summit in 1955 in a plane with only two engines , he took the biggest and longest-range jet of its day , the TU 114 , to New York . |
| 15 | In the garden of the Adam and Eve , Theodora drank sherry and gave herself the pleasure of gazing at the spire of the cathedral . |
| 16 | He looked down at their faces — those he could discern in that sea of tall hats and paper , half-lost among the scaffolding : common faces , glowing with common avarice , indulging the common pleasure of gloating at the latecomers ' despair . |
| 17 | PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust . |
| 18 | It is this that I had in mind in proposing at the outset my three notions and calling one of them , the last , language as replay . |
| 19 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 20 | Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account . |
| 21 | The middle paragraph , which summarizes Sadat 's condition on arriving at the hospital and the doctors ' report , is expanded into three pages in the Arabic version . |
| 22 | Optimism over trading at the interim stage had proved unfounded , the group said yesterday . |
| 23 | One basic decision you have to make is whether to index a card by writing at the top of the card a theme/keyword or a name of an author/title . |
| 24 | Peons were even brought in sustain the illusion by prodding at the land , and a bulldozer chugged about . |
| 25 | We can corroborate our timescale of the circulation by looking at the changes in density surface of the salinity minimum . |
| 26 | Finally , noting the prominence of assertions to the contrary , by Conservative speakers , we will conclude this chapter by looking at the relationship between crime and unemployment . |
| 27 | The current research programme aims to bridge this gap by looking at the interplay between organizational processes of technological change and economic consequences . |
| 28 | On page five , those of you who were at the last council meeting will know that the City Centre Management Working Party were charged with the responsibility of looking at the whole issue of street trading . |
| 29 | The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow . |
| 30 | The sound of the trains and the flash of their silvery sides through the trees was part of living at the School . |