Example sentences of "at [art] [noun] gates " in BNC.

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1 He had glanced back , to see Ashton standing at the depot gates , waving a piece of paper at him .
2 But by the time Rachel arrived at the factory gates the October sunshine was doing its best to struggle through with more than a promise of a fine day to come .
3 Although there were minor scuffles at the factory gates on Tuesday morning , Mr McLevy said the workers would continue to picket peacefully and legally .
4 On Thursday , two of the four will return to Edinburgh to answer charges that they breached an earlier interdict banning them from inciting or organising mass pickets at the factory gates .
5 Four former workers are awaiting trial at Dundee Sheriff Court on charges of breach of the peace arising out of incidents at the factory gates .
6 It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work .
7 The Welsh miners are upset about something , hanging about menacingly at the pit gates .
8 They swing in at the airport gates .
9 At the lodge gates turn right over the reservoir dam then walk up through Blackstone Bank Wood .
10 D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you .
11 Then she was standing at the church gates and looking down Lyra Street ; looking , but not understanding .
12 I know that in Beirut I simply took my child through the checkpoints and delivered her at the school gates .
13 A nine-year-old boy and his sister , 11 , who live with their grandparents in Reading , Berks are trying to stop their mother embarrassing them by turning up drunk at the school gates .
14 Education , of course , does not end at the school gates : the home is one of a complex of factors which combine to affect the child 's chances at school .
15 What the hell were they going to think of that at the school gates , any of the other parents or any of the teachers ?
16 Many women in this position today , sharing childcare and social support with other women , meeting in mother and toddler groups , in each other 's houses , at the school gates , at the shops , are engaged in a kind of separatism .
17 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
18 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
19 But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke .
20 1 At the cliff gates , outside the Castle
21 When it was time to go home again , at the hospital gates the friendly porter was on duty , sitting inside the cosy little wooden porters ' hut .
22 Leakage at the lock gates and sluices .
23 Whatever the tide states at the lock gates , the ri the channel is dredged ten feet below that .
24 The Pool Manager what lo he at the finish , where he is now , he 's at the lock gates .
25 They the da the harbour master 's men at the lock gates came out on strike .
26 Edmund would be killed the instant they appeared at the castle gates .
27 When I arrived at the Palace gates with my invitation card I was somewhat taken aback when two or three in the crowd around the railings recognized me and asked for autographs — in that place of all places !
28 One not to be missed was Betty Boothroyd in a black-on-red number trying to be demure and inconspicuous on a day that resounded to cries at the palace gates of ‘ We want Boothroyd . ’
29 After a 200-mile taxi journey , he arrived at the palace gates of the Maharajah of Rewa — at 2am .
30 Because it is seen to be of little direct help to teaching , that knowledge and vocabulary is abandoned and left at the college gates as soon as the BEd exams are over .
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