Example sentences of "[to-vb] an [noun sg] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Wesley and his close associate John Berridge ( 1716–93 ) , the Rector of Everton , had both been addicted to this practice ; both had used it to obtain an answer at a particular time to the knotty question whether to get married . |
| 2 | The referee then went off the field to consult an officer at the touchline who waved us off the pitch . |
| 3 | Better than that , the Power Launcher itself has a timed event facility , which means that you can set it to open an application at a given time — so that file you promised to send to a colleague via modem by ten o'clock on Thursday can be sent automatically , even if you 've taken the day off sick ( assuming the cleaner has n't switched your PC off , of course ! ) |
| 4 | Where a party desires without having first obtained an order to use an affidavit at the hearing , he may not less than 14 days before the hearing give notice accompanied by a copy of the affidavit to the party against whom it is to be used . |
| 5 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 6 | He even had the temerity to do an ad-lib at the end of the ‘ Mrs Worthington ’ number . |
| 7 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 8 | ‘ I used to wear an earring at the time . |
| 9 | Edward had gone off to see an editor at the BBC ; he wanted to talk about a project on the Third World , and the boy was at school . |
| 10 | He felt like a little boy suddenly told by his mother to share an afternoon at the cinema with another child . |
| 11 | As was seen at the recent September Gala the old gentleman is feeling his age and his appearance on the Sunday was only possible after herculean efforts on the part of the staff who had to work on a hot locomotive , in the most trying conditions , to ensure an appearance at the Gala Weekend . |
| 12 | Reports in May said that the UK had invested £19,000,000 to build an airstrip at the Rothera scientific station , 1,900 km south of the Falkland islands . |
| 13 | All of these patients are loath to consider an ileostomy at the moment but fully accept that pouch excision may eventually be necessary . |
| 14 | The Mancunian dance team are the first band to host an all-nighter at the venue and intend to perform two sets , one at 10pm and the other in the early hours . |
| 15 | A final decision to stage an exhibition at The Steam Engine Rally at Bishop 's Castle on 27/28 August 1989 was taken ( see report later ) . |
| 16 | At the cessation of the solo passage , if the instrument continues to play but only has a subordinate part , it is a good plan to place an asterisk at the point where the prominent passage ends . |
| 17 | You have n't manage to get an oven at the moment have we ? |
| 18 | told that I was trying to get an appointment at the asthma clinic but they could n't get one for fortn another full week . |
| 19 | No I 'm not ignoring them but what I 'm saying is that problems that people are genuinely concerned about of dust or noise are unlikely to have an impact at a distance of two miles . |
| 20 | Do n't be worried if you have to have an injection at the clinic or at the doctor 's , because the syringes they use are sterilised and used only once . |
| 21 | How much simpler to station an interviewer at a busy part of a town and have her interview people who are passing by . |
| 22 | The German government has announced the appointment of a commission to investigate an explosion at the Hoechst chemical plant in Frankfurt , which left one worker dead and another suffering third-degree burns . |
| 23 | She had discovered that he was to deliver an address at a Sunday Times book exhibition , and she arrived there with Polly . |
| 24 | Some of the early work in this area was done in the 1970s by Schofield , who used a simple system of asking users to complete a slip of paper for each ‘ failure ’ to locate an item at the shelf . |
| 25 | Previously he had to spend an hour at a transit warehouse near Lyons waiting for clearance . |
| 26 | ‘ If you have spent a day at the stadium , the one thing you do n't need is to spend an evening at the theatre . |
| 27 | Odd on an otherwise naked figure , it is a borrowing from the belted dress of Nikandre and her sisters , to make an accent at the centre of the statue , achieved later by a schematic pattern of musculature . |
| 28 | This talented designer from the south of Italy often appeared to be designing for those wishing to make an entrance at the Cannes film festival rather than turn heads at Maxim 's . |
| 29 | Dr Ottokar Proctor , head of the presidential think-tank , and widely believed to be the architect of the Big Bonus , was unavailable for comment , although he is scheduled to make an appearance at a film festival in Tampa , Florida , where he will give a lecture on the Sisyphean influence of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner on contemporary American culture . |
| 30 | TWO ‘ Star ’ locomotives are scheduled to make an appearance at the forthcoming Open Day at Leicester British Rail depot on Sunday , September 6 . |