Example sentences of "[adv prt] at a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Barbra brought the house down at a California party when she sang her version of the classic ‘ It Had To Be You . ’
2 Andrew Ferguson , 25 , of Pelham Street , Hartlepool , was fined £100 and ordered to pay compensation of £117 to the woman driver of a car which he kicked as it slowed down at a road junction .
3 Derive an expression for the maximum stored energy , W max considering that the dielectric breaks down at a field intensity Eb .
4 Ruth grinned at him as he sat down at a cane table , making sure he was under the bright green awning that hung over the balcony and not a sliver of sun was on the bare parts of his body .
5 A SPECIAL constable was shot dead at point-blank range and his colleague gunned down at a routine police check , an Old Bailey court heard yesterday .
6 There 's another one that works at erm down at a trailer place , is that Gary 's son ?
7 Sir Ralph ( he had been knighted by Margaret Thatcher in 1980 for raising money from commerce and industry to finance the activities of Conservative Central Office when in Opposition ) bought a coffee and sat down at a corner table .
8 When talks broke down at a Leeds hotel last week , Wilkinson told both players to go home and think over his offer , but Andersson 's later outburst left the Leeds manager fuming .
9 Conversely , any fool can sit down at a slot machine .
10 After a while I sat down at a pavement café table and rather shamefacedly clapped my hands , but produced such a ladylike patter that no one heard me .
11 Jamie and I sit down at a side table to wait .
12 She pulled in at a motorway service station and decided on lunch .
13 A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station .
14 Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said .
15 Call in at a Booking Agent .
16 For the first six months they have to live in at a training centre .
17 For the second time that night she slid silently in at a garden gate .
18 Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs .
19 ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’
20 ‘ Some of it really moves me , and some of it cracks me up — kinda what you go through at a birthday party . ’
21 She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party .
22 Around the south of Ithaka , stop off at a day anchorage for lunch and a swim , then into Port Vathi , capital of Ithaka .
23 But I 've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants .
24 Mind you , not many Mormons would turn up at a Barbican flat at 7.30 clutching two bottles of wine .
25 A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds .
26 Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago .
27 A PROJECT for budding photographers has been set up at a Newton Aycliffe school .
28 I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter .
29 Leland Palmer ignores him , doing what all good rock'n'roll drivers do : pointing out the house where Robin Williams lives , pulling up at a liquor store , and drawing our attention to a woman with an exceptionally large arse riding a bike .
30 Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning .
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