Example sentences of "at [noun prp] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later . |
| 2 | The Jungle Giants nursery is at Wigmore a few miles from the show garden . |
| 3 | But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later . |
| 4 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 5 | At the Sedgwick memorial , the main street continues ahead and a branch turns right , these rejoining at Cowgill a few miles further on ; this branch road will be described on the return journey . |
| 6 | Anselm reached Dover on 23 September and met Henry I at Salisbury a few days later . |
| 7 | The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable . |
| 8 | And , finally , we received two more dead CV12 power packs from the FRG at Soltau a few hours ago . ’ |
| 9 | Well they are , it 's a long story , again it brings Banbury in it again because when Phil was at Banbury a few years ago , he left to join Brackley Town . |
| 10 | IBM demonstrated OS/2 and OSF/1 running concurrently on a PS/2 at Comdex a few weeks back , using the multiple personality capabilities of OSF 's Mach-based microkernel technology . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 12 | In what seems like a big complement on our powers of imagination , Unix System Laboratories chief Roel Pieper and Chuck Reilly , vice president of operations at the Open Software Foundation have been re-writing history , claiming at Utrecht a few weeks back that the press made up the entire Unix Wars all by themselves : ‘ they never happened ’ pleaded Rielly , who did n't join OSF until 1989 , after some of the worst was over . |
| 13 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |