Example sentences of "a [noun sg] at the [noun] " 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 | Compared with 10 years ago , when it was estimated that at least 70 per cent of two-parent households with two children came within the scheme , less than half of two-parent families now qualify , according to the author of the study , Michael Murphy , a statistician at the London School of Economics . |
| 3 | If you have a trial within a trial at the magistrates court , what happens ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | While I was in visiting my wife , I met Dawn 's mother , a sister at the hospital . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Grandmother Sylvia Pye is breaking up wood with a sledgehammer at the roadside . |
| 8 | His mind would likely have blown a fuse at the Jon Kessler show , at Luhring-Augustine until the 25th . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On 16th February 1991 whilst my husband was serving in the Gulf on Operation Granby , I was invited to attend a function at the Corporals Mess ’ — in a particular regiment which , of course , I shall not mention — ’ which I did attend with some of my friends . |
| 13 | All those affected had attended a function at the restaurant . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And she married er a man named , Mr , I c do n't know his christian name , and he was a warder at the Leicester prison . |
| 16 | Strictly speaking I 'm not occupied on a case at the moment , and this is quite unofficial . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a case at the moment that I can not go ahead with the case because I can not afford £700 , ’ said Barbara . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The kitchen comes out a bit at the back . |
| 20 | And then I could put it all back in a ponytail except for a bit at the front dripping down . |
| 21 | It hurt a bit at the time , but I got myself free and did n't think a lot about it just then . |
| 22 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 26 | ‘ He comes from Achiltibuie , and worked for a bit at the hydroponics there . |
| 27 | ‘ I finish here half past four , Wednesdays , I do a bit at the vicarage that night . |
| 28 | There is even a bit at the end where the singer metaphorically falls to his knees and testifies . |
| 29 | I 'll come back to semantics a bit at the end . |
| 30 | What ha what about if all the pen , what if I put some extra tin foil just a bit at the end . |