Example sentences of "a [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , in either case , the patient may have to make a payment at the point of receipt of service . [ … ] |
| 2 | I mean I reckon that must I there cos whatever that is with a G at the end possible , could be I N G could n't it ? |
| 3 | Bannister , 32 , pleaded with Clough for a trial at the start of the season after being kicked out by West Bromwich , but he missed several chances in Saturday 's 0-0 draw at Chelsea . |
| 4 | While I was in visiting my wife , I met Dawn 's mother , a sister at the hospital . |
| 5 | Keres were often described as hovering , on outstretched wings , above a battlefield , for their favourite pastime was to swoop upon a warrior at the point of his death and suck the blood from his mortal wounds . |
| 6 | Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside . |
| 7 | Where a stocking stitch tension might be 28 stitches in width to 10 cm , placing a cable at the centre might reduce the tension to 8 or 9 cm . |
| 8 | One of the reasons Mr Houghton and his managers cite for staying in the pots-and-pans business sounds pretty lame : namely that the business was handicapped in the 1980s first by a recession at the start of the decade and then later by a strong dollar and so could now recover . |
| 9 | The court was told that Lord Apsley was arrested by Ministry of Defence Police when he arrived in his Land Rover for a function at the Duke of Gloucester Barrcks at South Cerney on November the 30th last year . |
| 10 | All those affected had attended a function at the restaurant . |
| 11 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 12 | Strictly speaking I 'm not occupied on a case at the moment , and this is quite unofficial . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara . |
| 14 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 15 | The kitchen comes out a bit at the back . |
| 16 | And then I could put it all back in a ponytail except for a bit at the front dripping down . |
| 17 | It hurt a bit at the time , but I got myself free and did n't think a lot about it just then . |
| 18 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 19 | If I 've got to print them off from my computer and the computer 's er not exactly in bits but it 's just taken apart a bit at the moment so I need to put it back together again and print them off . |
| 20 | We were in Glasgow last weekend , and were quite chuffed when Ewan consented to come out for a walk just with us two , as he clings to Joyce a bit at the moment . |
| 21 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 22 | ‘ He comes from Achiltibuie , and worked for a bit at the hydroponics there . |
| 23 | ‘ I finish here half past four , Wednesdays , I do a bit at the vicarage that night . |
| 24 | There is even a bit at the end where the singer metaphorically falls to his knees and testifies . |
| 25 | I 'll come back to semantics a bit at the end . |
| 26 | What ha what about if all the pen , what if I put some extra tin foil just a bit at the end . |
| 27 | And if you actually look at this paper , there 's quite a bit at the end of the day that the local authority will need to do , and I think we need to underline that and to get money . |
| 28 | A marine at the residence said : ‘ We do n't believe that President Clinton 's man will allow us to start potting the rabbits again . ’ |
| 29 | She pointed a finger the size of a salami at the child 's head and shouted , ‘ You look like a rat with a tail coming out of its head ! ’ |
| 30 | He kept them beneath a cushion at the end of his bench . |