Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sonilla and Ned 's Aura both won at Newmarket the day before the Cambridgeshire . |
| 2 | In late 1990 a paperback appeared but priced at double the cost in the pre-publication announcement , placing the volume outside the price range for a course text . |
| 3 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 4 | He had decided at Aix the year before to break one mould . |
| 5 | Obviously where frequent attempts are made at reconciliation the cost accounts may be reasonably accurate . |
| 6 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 7 | I think I 'm not promised at present the lorry ban as it is resulting parking on |
| 8 | None has yet advanced at Augusta the idea that there should be a Ryder Cup-style event to include the Australians , though the theory has been voiced before . |
| 9 | For then if the price is set at P the quantity traded will equal the quantity that buyers and sellers at the end of period t — 1 thought optimal at that price . |
| 10 | With the saw blade set at 15° the jig locates in the mitre fence slots of the saw table , sliding back and forth over the blade . |
| 11 | Whilst it would have been sensible for the remit to have been reviewed at time the organisation was created , we acknowledge the political realities that existed . |
| 12 | The site has been shown to have regularly put at risk the health , and often the lives , of those who work or live in its shadow . |
| 13 | The amount of money that is taken out of the country 's economy by cannabis each year is estimated at £250,000,000 the street value being nearer £500,000,000 . |
| 14 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 15 | Indeed , he has invited both of you to a special tournament to be held at Smithfield the day after next and , following that , later in the evening , a banquet in the Savoy Palace . |