Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The UK may have won a battle at the Maastricht summit , but not the ‘ war ’ , says David Lomax , Group Economic Adviser at National Westminster Bank , in his January economic review . |
| 2 | Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 4 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 5 | Lisa Keenan , 17 , from Oxton has won a place at the University of Northumbria , while Lisa Hudson , 18 , from Claughton will study at the Preston-based University of Central Lancashire . |
| 6 | A TALENTED North-East teenager has won a place at the prestigious National Youth Theatre . |
| 7 | Critical respect is no problem — and the innovative video for his last album , Infected , even won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival , despite the troubling sexism of a couple of its sequences . |
| 8 | The dramatic revelations soured the victory celebrations of John Major , who had claimed a triumph at the Edinburgh European summit . |
| 9 | He had claimed a silver at the Montreal Olympics in 1976 and later that winter helped Western Australia add to their tally of Sheffield Shield triumphs . |
| 10 | On many occasions the Conservatives have nominated a governor at the same time . |
| 11 | ‘ I was up all night before the event to make sure we were prepared because attention to detail is so important , ’ said Jerry , whose 13 years in the business have included a spell at the Ritz Hotel in London . |
| 12 | To help you work out what these costs are likely to be , we have included a guide at the end of this booklet detailing the main expenses . |
| 13 | Thorn Lighting has installed a system at the Chingford Tennis School in Essex . |
| 14 | They had n't booked a table at the restaurant , but Roman 's appearance seemed to galvanise the waiters into respectfully procuring the best table , at the centre of the balcony , with a magnificent view across the bay . |
| 15 | He had booked a table at the best restaurant in Auckland . |
| 16 | ‘ But PDAG has organised a seminar at the Copthorne Hotel today and tomorrow to discuss how to transfer their work to the quangos . |
| 17 | With the help of Kit Martin , the architect Bob Weighton and the engineers Peter Dann and partners , SAVE presented a scheme at the public inquiry to show that the building could be stabilized and converted on a commercial basis into seven flats . |
| 18 | He would say he had met a friend at the wine bar and gone on somewhere and found it too late to get back . |
| 19 | All those affected had attended a function at the restaurant . |
| 20 | The Prince Edward visited Callendar Park and was received by Captain William Forbes ( Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Falkirk ) and later visited Stirling Castle , Strathallan Games Park and subsequently attended a dinner at the Forum Hotel , Glasgow . |
| 21 | Like so many of the men now rising to leadership in poor countries , he has done a stint at the World Bank , and is regarded as capable . |
| 22 | On his retirement on 8 April 1874 , Phillips was granted a pension at the rate of his full salary of £750 , for his ‘ peculiar and exceptional services ’ . |
| 23 | He had built a studio at the foot of the garden connected to the house by a covered pathway and the general collections of the Survey were housed in the studio . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 25 | Rufus put the receiver back , feeling a clutch at his stomach as if a hard hand had made a grab at the muscles . |
| 26 | The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June . |
| 27 | The pregnant woman , having just made a face at the taste of the spicy chicken wings , just as Belinda had done , was about to take a sip of Greg 's very strong gin and tonic . |
| 28 | more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden |
| 29 | Pauline had made a reservation at the Waterside Café in Bridgetown for 12.30 . |
| 30 | She 's got a suite at the Cicero , tabbed by Fielding Goodney , with a hairdresser , a bodyguard , and a 73-year-old boyfriend … |