Example sentences of "the [noun pl] station " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modules could form part of the bare-bones station or the truncated Freedom ( though they might not get up there early on ) ; they could also be mated to the single-launch skylab . |
| 2 | The firm of Ross and Macdonald had recently been associated with the building of the Beaux-Arts station in Ottawa . |
| 3 | At Ottawa , following a government report , the Gréber Commission , which concluded that stations and railway lines were unsightly in Canadian cities , the Beaux-Arts station , so superbly situated at the base of Parliament Hill , was abandoned and a new station like an airport was built on the edge of the city . |
| 4 | The Beaux-Arts stations represented the apogee of station design , but scarcely of taste . |
| 5 | The lift was absolutely essential for some of the barrels were extremely large being brought from the Goods Station on horse-drawn drays and then manoeuvred to the road on specially constructed ramps which clipped to bars at the back of the carts . |
| 6 | But the principal focus for freight traffic was the goods station . |
| 7 | The Forth Goods Station , Newcastle upon Tyne , was living proof of the comprehensive functionality of the goods station . |
| 8 | Into the goods stations would come fish trains , milk trains , coal trains , meat trains . |
| 9 | Maps of the waterway show the locations of the many camps , the Rangers Stations and the springs for getting fresh water . |
| 10 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 11 | At the police station Rita sat on a wooden bench and answered questions . |
| 12 | A townscape of nightmare yellows : sky , buildings , furniture , wallpaper , faces — the colour of age , heat , pestilence , bile and jaundice , bruisings and stainings , with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English ; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry ; the colour of Raskolnikov 's ‘ cubbyhole ’ of a room ; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man ‘ holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water ’ . |
| 13 | To stay with yellow for a moment : we noted a paring-down to the bare bones of yellow water in a yellow glass when Raskolnikov comes to after fainting on his first visit to the police station . |
| 14 | Thus he caught the police station and the whole city during those few fictional july days when everything except the Epilogue happens . |
| 15 | When , on his final journey to the police station , Raskolnikov kneels down in the middle of the Haymarket and kisses ‘ the earth , the filthy earth ’ ( zemlya ) as Sonya has bidden , it is entirely calculated by Dostoevsky that a tipsy artisan should laugh at the strange young man who ‘ is bowing down to the whole world and is kissing the capital city of St Petersburg and its soil ’ ( grunt , the German Grund ) . |
| 16 | So his rallying himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess was not the acceptance of suffering which Sonya and Porfiry both — but separately — urged him towards . |
| 17 | She puts it on to follow Raskolnikov on his final journey to the police station , and through his mind flashes the thought that this is the shawl Marmeladov referred to in the pub as ‘ the family one ’ . |
| 18 | I see the whole chapter as a subtle but misconceived footnote to Crime and Punishment ; in these pages , instead of brushing past Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his return upon the underground man , Dostoevsky has allowed himself to be obstructed by them , and the result is a Stavrogin who compounds Raskolnikov 's bracing himself to enter the police station ‘ as a man ’ and confess with Svidrigailov 's reaching out in all directions , including the far extremes of moral and physical debauchery , in the hope that something , it does n't matter what , will make him unbored . |
| 19 | However , ‘ I invite nobody into my soul ’ he declares , as if to banish the exhibitionist thought.44 And then if the search for suffering is allowed to eclipse the rest , we are back with Marmeladov squinnying into the bottom of his vodka jug ; whereas Stavrogin saying he wants to forgive himself might be Raskolnikov pondering retrospectively , selfcritically , on his admission of guilt at the police station . |
| 20 | PARIS — The other day the window of the police station was open and an angry male voice could be heard shouting : ‘ But you have to sign the statement , Madame . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Ozberk had already been taken , handcuffed and escorted by police , to the police station at Heathrow airport from the Haslar detention centre , near Gosport , Hampshire , when Mr Renton 's new orders were given to the Immigration Service . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , Piper , if you can not make up your mind , you are welcome to spend the night at the Police Station ; I have two empty cells at the moment . |
| 23 | They returned to the police station , passing the parish church on whose steps a June bride and her attendants were being photographed . |
| 24 | The foyer of the police station enclosed them . |
| 25 | The police station was not yet half a dozen years old , but ever since its completion the powers that be , like fussy housewives , had been unable to let well alone , adding innovation after innovation , perpetually trying to improve their handiwork . |
| 26 | Sounds like the police station , Wexford thought . |
| 27 | Camb eyed him warily as he entered the police station . |
| 28 | The terrorists then loaded a mortar launcher into the skip and drove the lorry into the council yard , just one hundred metres from the Police Station . |
| 29 | ‘ To the Police Station . ’ |
| 30 | He again went to see them and persuaded them to accompany him to a meeting at the police station with Mr McLean on August 24 . |