Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All they wanted was to live out their lives in a peaceful and financially comfortable exile and they had no thought of putting themselves or their positions at risk by indulging in some political adventure . |
| 2 | A local authority applicant may call a parent as witness and compel his or her attendance at court by issue of a witness summons , where necessary ( see Chapter 5 , 14(c) ) . |
| 3 | This is not to deny the significance of the creative individual , but his or her efforts at innovation can only be really sustained when they take root in and pervade the school as a whole . |
| 4 | In this method , the attainment of a child at the time of the test is compared with his or her attainment at time of entry to the school . |
| 5 | Thirdly , and most seriously , a teacher may be accused of abusing a child under his or her care at school . |
| 6 | A more telling example is that there is no UN chain of command to carry the news of a casualty in the field speedily to his or her family at home . |
| 7 | And my life at home is simple , down-to-earth and pretty conventional . |
| 8 | And Chris , 13 , said proudly : ‘ I entered because my mum 's always complaining about the pong and my pals at school joke about my smelly feet . |
| 9 | The first group , that of ordinary soldiers , had found a new camaraderie at the Front , which had led ‘ to a loosening of ties to the Party and its affiliations at home ’ . |
| 10 | It is not just the prospect of overseas sales which is troubling the nuclear industry and its critics at present . |
| 11 | The difference between the purchase price and its value at maturity ( nominal value ) will be its yield or return ; the bill will therefore be sold at a discount to its nominal value . |
| 12 | He had selected the 27-year-old Kate Miskin on her record and her performance at interview , satisfied that she had the qualities for which he was looking . |
| 13 | During a debate on the Merchant Shipping Act in the House of Lords in 1854 , the Earl of Eglinton referred to Betsy Miller and her life at sea . |
| 14 | A teenager who kidnapped his former girlfriend and her stepfather at gunpoint last year has admitted making more threats . |
| 15 | the pretty girl victim … four months after The Fox subjected her to a three-hour sex ordeal — and forced her brother and her boyfriend at gunpoint to perform degrading acts with her — the girl crawled into an airing cupboard in a bid to shut out the memories . |
| 16 | Veronica Goslings also peruses the local jumble sales for suitable material , and her garden at home is adorned with the results . |
| 17 | Two men who raided a supermarket after kidnapping the supervisor and her husband at gunpoint have been jailed for a total of twelve years . |
| 18 | They played a leading part in the organization of the war after 1369 ; they both had considerable experience of Breton affairs , and their influence at court may be one reason for the important position occupied by Brittany in English strategy from 1372 to 1375 . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , with their jobs and their rations at stake , 14,145,163 people placed their cross in the " Yes " box on the ballot papers , against 1,074,500 who voted against or returned spoiled ballot papers . |
| 20 | In March 1990 , again on the initiative of the UK , the 13 states party to the 1974 Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage at Sea adopted a protocol to the convention which increased the compensation payable for death or personal injury to around US$225,000 . |
| 21 | This project uses the information contained in the returns made by enumerators for the Census of England and Wales , 1881 , to investigate the origins , nationalities , ages and , to a lesser extent , the living conditions and mobility of the labourers and their families at work on railway building in the spring of 1881 . |
| 22 | There are people who are genuinely trying to make money for themselves and their families at car boot sales , so I think , you know , I do n't , I would n't like to see them stamped on altogether . |
| 23 | For instance , as SCCs were formed , so each would appoint a number of ‘ Friendly Visitors ’ to interview the school-leavers and their parents at home and to collect all relevant information from teachers as to academic ability and character . |
| 24 | In addition , among several projects for livestock improvement and marketing promoted by the HIDB 's Livestock Improvement Working Party , a lamb marketing scheme was set up in Lewis in 1978 for the transport of store lambs to the mainland and their sale at auction . |
| 25 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 26 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 27 | A I 'm pretty sure you 're going to need some help to deal with your son 's behaviour , and his problems at school . |
| 28 | And he had all these pictures of himself and his friends at university with oars crossed above them , and a coloured one of the Highlands with hairy cattle paddling in a lake , and one of his father with his dogs , and such a lovely picture of his wife — dead she was , poor soul — and another big picture of Venice with gondolas and a lot of foreigners in fancy dress , and a cartoon of Dr. Mac done by one of his friends , showing the friend lying dead , and Dr. Mac in his deerstalker hat looking for clues with his magnifying glass . |
| 29 | Adam said unhappily : ‘ But I doubt Harry went there to kill , and his standing at law may not be all we could wish . |
| 30 | Somebody is watching Carl and his mother at Bar Capri . |