Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Undaunted by their failure to attract a buyer at the sale , Alexia Lindsay ( of the Ephemera stall ) drove them afterwards to Chorley in Lancashire , where a shop called Girls Gone By gave 200 for them . |
| 2 | Eanflaed 's kinship with Oswine subsequently obliged Oswiu to found a monastery at the place of Oswine 's death at Gilling in Yorkshire in expiation of his murder ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 3 | Still to come a look at the opening shots in the Independent Enquiry into the fate of Rover 's Cowley works and the questions that Bicester 's friends of the earth say you must ask any candidate in the local elections . |
| 4 | Still to come a look at the day 's financial news and er sports news . |
| 5 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , first financial report though in association with Barclay 's Bank for your financial needs . |
| 6 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , and there 's a new signing for Oxford United . |
| 7 | Well I do n't know how true it is but I have heard from somebody I know , whose husband was a a plumber , and he came to unplug a toilet at the erm Cricket Players when it closed down , he had to unplug it . |
| 8 | White , of no fixed address , was arrested after he threatened to detonate a bomb at the NatWest in Piccadilly , London . |
| 9 | Later I was to meet a woman at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre who did n't want her youngest child to know what she had . |
| 10 | With her attempt to establish a company at the Imperial Theatre , Westminster , having failed , Lillie resumed touring . |
| 11 | This solution works particularly well in houses which have evolved over several centuries , where it is possible to repair a wing at a time , selling the houses as they near completion and recycling the investment . |
| 12 | They are right to impose a timetable at the start of the Committee stage to ensure that all parts of the Bill are properly dealt with . |
| 13 | Improved communications have increased the ability of firms in some sectors to provide a service at a distance , as for mail-order shopping and database management . |
| 14 | Also the Transport Authority was expressly empowered to require the Executive to provide a service at a cost the Executive considered to be too high , so long as the Transport Authority provided the necessary additional cost . |
| 15 | First Edition TWO MEN who fled after bungling a raid on a shop jumped into a getaway car only to find a policeman at the wheel . |
| 16 | The man had fallen asleep in the lounge when he woke to find a fire at the front door of his terraced home . |
| 17 | At the gate on your right ( 002813 ) take the path going east-north-east to find a path at the east end of the woods . |
| 18 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 19 | I was horrified to find a notice at the bottom of Ben More stating No Dogs Allowed . |
| 20 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 21 | An education voucher , for example , could be used to obtain a place at a state school , or as part payment of private school fees . |
| 22 | ‘ So , I propose to position a cordon at the north-western corner of the boundary fence , while you an ’ Pete are tryin' to take out their Control . |
| 23 | House blaze : Fire crews were called out to tackle a blaze at a house in The Greenway , Middleton St George yesterday . |
| 24 | ‘ At a general meeting held in Edinburgh today solicitors representing the fourteen Property Centres throughout Scotland agreed that contrary to recent statements in the Press there is no insurmountable difficulty in getting mortgages for clients who wish to purchase a house at the present time . ’ |
| 25 | A combination of justified annoyance , guilt and weeks of overwork blew John McLeish 's temper to shreds instantly , and Francesca , seriously over-stressed and not one to duck a quarrel at the best of times , responded in kind . |
| 26 | He expects to receive a dividend at the end of the year as well as the price for the share at that time . |
| 27 | Before doing so , you would be strongly advised to consult a solicitor at the Citizens ' Advice Bureau or the Welfare Advice Unit of your local Social Security office . |
| 28 | A Phocaean aristocrat happened to be the guest of the king of the Ligurian tribe of the Segobrigi when the king 's daughter was made to choose a husband at a banquet . |
| 29 | They were asked to choose a career at the wrong time ; there are more pressing issues at 18 years of age than careers . |
| 30 | In 1939 the Tanganyika Forestry Department conducted an ‘ experiment in controlled burning against the wind ’ in the presence of the laibon and a large number of Masai , the object being to create a fire-break at the edge of the Roinye forest : disaster was ‘ only narrowly averted ’ when the fire got out of control . |