Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] at the [noun] " 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 | It 's been the right weather for ducks at the Henley Royal Regatta … but despite the rain and the lack of Olympic rowers , there 's been plenty of top rowing … the regatta continues until Sunday . |
| 3 | David Carlson did n't really like his daughter staying for hours at the Davis 's . |
| 4 | A word of advice — do n't sit for hours at the knitting machine , particularly if you are a comparative beginner . |
| 5 | Germany also responded to an appeal made by Gorbachev on Nov. 21 during meetings at the Paris summit of the CSCE [ see p. 37838-39 ] for governments to provide emergency food aid . |
| 6 | A team of officers will also be waiting for calls at the Durham Police headquarters . |
| 7 | The Finn also threatened in the air when he came in for headers at the back post . |
| 8 | June Roberts said she 'd gone out in the car , saying nothing except that she 'd be back in time for cocktails at the Clarkes ' as she had promised , a business thing for Samuel . |
| 9 | And we can still go for cocktails at the Frasers ’ and bridge at the McAlpines and tee off with the Gordons and cruise with the Hamiltons with a united front , a respectable face , ca n't we , Fergus ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But his fame stretches far beyond Sedbergh and the Moorcock Inn and tonight he 's donning his showman 's hat for fans at the Tyne Theatre Newcastle . |
| 14 | Often it is transported out of the upland valleys and spread out as fans at the upland edges . |
| 15 | Another surprise for passers-by at the entrance to High Wood may be the ghostly figure of a woman ! |
| 16 | We will be screening , in conjunction with the Puffin Book Club , a series of films for schools at the Midlands Arts Centre . |
| 17 | While the women were competing the men were Bowling for Nine-pins at the back of the inn . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | He knew of a ‘ sure winner ’ in the Stewards Plate for two-years-olds at The Curragh race meeting . |
| 22 | The wildlife departments of the governments concerned are to appeal for funds at the March meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 23 | Two other men were targeted by the attackers who swooped on an all-night ‘ rave ’ for teenagers at the Eclipse nightclub in Stockton 's Brunswick Street . |
| 24 | ( 9 ) Sometimes the amount payable for chattels at the property may be separately set out , particularly if the price of the property is close to the current stamp duty threshold . |
| 25 | Tickets for performances at the Oxford Union and for all concerts may also be obtained from Tickets in Oxford , Information Centre , St Aldate 's , Oxford . |
| 26 | He was lost for words at the time , and had to apologise and thank the donors later in private . |
| 27 | If this were not so , contextual facilitation of auditory word recognition would occur only for words at the end of clauses . |
| 28 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 29 | Nine people were wounded when two bombs exploded after hours at the Banco Popular in central Lima , and another bomb was deactivated at the home of a well-known television journalist , police said yesterday . |
| 30 | Foreign Affairs Minister Paavo Väyrynen announced on Sept. 23 , after discussions at the UN in New York with his Soviet counterpart Boris Pankin , that negotiations were to begin in October between Finland and the Soviet Union on a new treaty basis for their bilateral relations . |