Example sentences of "a [noun] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 2 | Gaynor Wynne was filming her with a camcorder during a champagne reception at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 3 | And if you , you go and see a G P at the end of the financial year or at the wrong part of the financial year , then you may be referred to somewhere strictly because that 's all the G P can , can afford to send you . |
| 4 | Charlie no longer played rhythm guitar but stood clutching a mike stand at the edge of the stage , howling at the kids , who pogoed like road drills , and spat and lobbed bottles until the stage was littered with broken glass . |
| 5 | She made her début in Paris in 1909 with Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , in New York in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House , and in London in 1910 in a variety performance at the Palace Theatre . |
| 6 | The wholesomeness of the Tiller dancers suited the Popplewell family who presented a variety show at the Gaiety Theatre , Ayr . |
| 7 | As we started the long walk back across the tundra to Camp Bell , we decided that there was nothing for it but to establish a base camp at the foot of the cliffs . |
| 8 | We are now at the crossroad , we need wider support and help both moral and financial and there will be a bucket collection at the end of this session . |
| 9 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 10 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 11 | Age Concern Cleveland will be holding a fundraising evening at the New Albert , Grange Road , Middlesbrough , on June 24 . |
| 12 | Conditional planning permission has been granted to build a bowling centre at the Scorpion club , Colburn , near Catterick Garrison . |
| 13 | The main aim of their eight-week-long visit is to learn enough to set up a consultancy centre at the university as the Czechs , unused to the rising unemployment they now face , do not have the knowhow to cope with such upheaval . |
| 14 | One approach is to time the passage of the Sun , from one side ( or — limb ’ ) to the other , across a fixed meridian ( north-south ) wire , and calculate its size from the known rotation rate of the Earth ; another depends on measurements of the solar disc using a micrometer screw at the eyepiece of a telescope . |
| 15 | Cornelius made a stem face at the Campbell . |
| 16 | He has dismissed as ‘ dirtying , disgusting and unfair ’ charges in Time and the Washington Post that he took part in a gang rape at the age of nine . |
| 17 | Phillip Hussey a course leader at the Bucks College designed the furniture for the reception area of the councils responsible for the funding of higher education ( below ) . |
| 18 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 19 | Appointed to a teaching post at the Canongate Burgh School , he remained there until 1864 , when disagreements with the school 's directors led to his dismissal . |
| 20 | They worked together for six months in project planning and Brown took a teaching job at the Strathclyde Business School which also allowed him to keep looking for hotel sites . |
| 21 | He got a teaching job at the University in Monterrey-huh — and I got pregnant . ’ |
| 22 | He was educated at Ratoath National School , county Meath , and trained as a teaching monitor at the Central Model Schools of the Board of National Education , Marlborough Street , Dublin . |
| 23 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ Actually , before the first single came out , he was doing a support act at The Marquee . |
| 24 | The boys started up dumper trucks , a J C B and a caterpillar tractor at the site , and in just one hour they had caused nearly £50,000 worth of damage . |
| 25 | Later , via a university revue at the Edinburgh Festival , he met Terry Jones and began co-writing with him for The Frost Report . |
| 26 | He joined the RAF in June , 1978 , on a permanent commission as a university cadet at the University of Glasgow and Strathclyde . |
| 27 | To speak personally , I might have found life easier , though possibly less interesting , if the English synthesis had continued to exist in approximately the same state as when I became a university teacher at the end of the 1950s : a genuine humane discipline , self-respecting , enjoyable , expanding , with methods that were established and familiar , if subject to variation between the different emphases associated with Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 28 | Then talk to a building society at the planning stage . |
| 29 | It was the body of a pine-marten lying in a deadfall trap at the foot of a tree . |
| 30 | If your Dream is to own your own business , then picture yourself playing with a toy sweetshop at the age of seven , or deciding not to be wage-slaves like your parents , or managing the household budget as an adult . ) |