Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The open-air Museum shows buildings removed from the Ulster countryside and re-erected at Cultra in a setting made to resemble the landscape from which they came . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd like something little and gay , ’ said the woman , smiling at Melanie from a mouth painted the very palest possible orange . |
| 3 | Dawn Run then won the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool and the Prix la Barka at Auteuil as a prelude to her victory in the Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil , the French equivalent of the Champion Hurdle . |
| 4 | I. Industrialists use the advantage of the transshipment of goods at Hull for a number of flour mills and also oil-seed mills which make cattle cake . |
| 5 | Flavia Sherman smiled sympathetically at Chuck for a moment then turned to her husband with an ill-concealed sigh of exasperation . |
| 6 | Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University . |
| 7 | The change brought some unexpected experiences and challenges , but all my years as a Head were full of interest and happy working relationships and I thoroughly enjoyed my career , a memorable and refreshing interlude in it being the Centenary summer term back at Somerville as a Schoolmistress Fellow . |
| 8 | With the main outage completed and the holiday season pressure easing , TOP Team activity is gathering momentum at Torness after a couple of months in the doldrums , writes Executive Support Manager Mervyn Jenkins . |
| 9 | Their latest lead is a vague description of a man at Sharpness in a car in which Carol Clark was a passenger . |
| 10 | News of the possible buyout came on the day on which production restarted at Leyland after a deal between suppliers and the receiver , Arthur Andersen . |
| 11 | Her brother , Paul Roberts , also works at Runcorn as a weaver . |
| 12 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
| 13 | Seeds arrived at Chelsea from a diversity of sources : for example , species of Aster : A. grandiflorus , found by Catesby in Virginia , A. nervosus from Pennsylvania ; A. chinensis ( now Callistephus chinensis , the China Aster ) sent to France by missionaries and thence to Chelsea and of this species , a double white from ‘ my worthy friend , Dr. Job Baxter of Zirkzee , Holland ’ ; and finally A. amantus and A. procumbens from William Houstoun in Vera Cruz . |
| 14 | Racing at Ayr up in Scotland where it is dry , Nottingham , Cheltenham where the Mackeson Gold Cup is , big card at Windsor with a lot of runners and finally the all-weather racing at Lingfield . |
| 15 | Gilbert 's eyes seemed glazed , and Jimmy looked at Cardiff in a way that seemed to say : We 've got to shut him up , Cardiff . |
| 16 | Ipswich say they are not interested in 33-year-old New Zealander Mitch Shirra , who is available at Swindon with a £10,000 fee on his head . |
| 17 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
| 18 | Known to some as the Capacious Curate because of his considerable appetite , he was doubly blessed at Sunderland by a visit to the Methodist church near the Roker End . |
| 19 | The Research Programme has always been considered vital at Henley as a means of training people for academic appointments . |
| 20 | I still can not say whose bomb did turn the Tirpitz over , But this is all good for morale ; like the piece of the Tirpit : that I was able to secure for these two happy squadrons , encased in a large frame of good British oak , and displayed at Binbrook as a trophy of what Willie Tait and his gang of two — 617 and 9 , or 9 and 617 , the choice is yours — achieved . |
| 21 | A replica of the tower has been built at Thiepval as a tribute to Ulster soldiers killed in the battle . |
| 22 | Both travelled widely in their search for new specimen plants and , on their sojourns , amassed an amazing collection of ethnographical curios and shells which they housed at Lambeth in a room known as ‘ The Ark ’ . |
| 23 | As they walked round to the back door , Ben , Simon 's dog , came lolloping up the beach , charged at Marie with a stick in his mouth and laid it down carefully at her feet . |
| 24 | Previn 's attack came after Mia , 47 , lashed back at Woody with a video tape . |
| 25 | Nick stayed at Muirfield for a morning press conference next day and then flew down to play in a charity pro-am . |
| 26 | In 1970 Leeds lost to Celtic 1-0 at Elland Road and 2-1 at Hampden before a crowd of 130,000 . |
| 27 | This was to achieve little save loss , but it was at least a factor in bringing the German attack at Verdun to an end . |
| 28 | Ulf , the bishop whose capabilities had so little impressed Bishop Ealdred , had disappeared from view and been replaced at Dorchester by a Saxon , Wulfwig , who was known to be on good terms with Leofric of Mercia . |
| 29 | ‘ Queen Margaret believes , ’ he continued , ‘ that her husband was murdered at Flodden by a member of Les Blancs Sangliers who have since waged continuous war against those who advised her late husband , such as Selkirk and Ruthven . ’ |
| 30 | Davies , Hare and Geoff Cooke , the England manager , watched Nottingham knock Northampton 's Courage League One title hopes sideways in what could be the last top division match at Beeston for a number of years . |