Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He revelled in the idea of murder , he wanted to glorify the violence of murder in a marquee at the Easter Fete . |
| 2 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 3 | Amid continuing tension in the capital , troops of the 500-strong Pakistani UN contingent guarding relief supplies at Mogadishu port and airport killed at least one Somali in a skirmish at the airport on Dec. 4 , the first blood shed by the force since it arrived in September [ see pp. 39085 ; 39132 ] . |
| 4 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 5 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's waiting in a coach at the door , ’ replied Rose . |
| 7 | The main — often the only — figure is placed in a panel at the centre . |
| 8 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 9 | Going back perhaps 200 years the Ponderosa was a little farmhouse nestling in a redoubt at the highest point on the mountain road between Belfast and ‘ Derry . |
| 10 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 11 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 12 | Now with a soprano who has already successfully taken the role in a revival at the Buxton Festival , Rosalind Plowright , Covent Garden is staging its own new production directed by Mike Ashman with sets by Bernard Culshaw . |
| 13 | Now with a soprano who has already successfully taken the role in a revival at the Buxton Festival , Rosalind Plowright , Covent Garden is staging its own new production directed by Mike Ashman with sets by Bernard Culshaw . |
| 14 | Winner of his previous six races , and fitted out in the Arkle colours of Anne Duchess of Westminster , he broke his elbow in a fall at the seventh fence and was destroyed . |
| 15 | Darlington crews have tackled a fire in a cylinder at the back of Hickstead Court in the town . |
| 16 | This activity is under the control of a periodic triggering mechanism in a structure at the top of the spinal column at the base of the brain known as the pontine brainstem . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have to leave 'er in a basket at the gate . ’ |
| 18 | The speech-writing team , locked away in a suite at the Imperial Hotel , are said to have made faster progress this year than at previous conferences , despite the need to do some hefty redrafting to echo the Chancellor 's assurances on the economy . |
| 19 | A blade-changing wrench is held in a clip at the rear of the sole plate . |
| 20 | She shrugged it off and left it lying where it fell , in a heap at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 21 | Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground , landing in a heap at the bottom . |
| 22 | She sat in a heap at the kitchen table . |
| 23 | She was left in a heap at the side of the road as the defendant drove off . |
| 24 | Yes well it 's possible that er Alan may see a way to using that but he is quite ni , I mean he he 's got no doubts he wants to come to me he 's in a divorce at the moment and the moment that the final papers are signed , he 's got to get out of the house he has to stay there till the last minute and then the moment that the papers are signed , he must go . |
| 25 | ‘ I found a drop in a bottle at the back of the knitting cupboard , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Once , someone had thrown a piece of lighted paper in a bottle at the house but it had not gone through the window . |
| 27 | Indulge in a lunch at the Roundels Restaurant or picnic in our courtyard among the oats . |
| 28 | A spacious typically Tyrolean gasthof , the Waldhof stand in a meadow at the foot of the Scheffau chair and gondola lifts . |
| 29 | Using an open doorway , screw in a hook at the centre of the door frame and suspend the skirt to the height required . |
| 30 | A sacral knot appears in a fresco at the temple of Niru Khani , and also on the so-called ‘ Parisienne ’ fresco fragment from Knossos ( Figure 46 ) . |