Example sentences of "in [noun] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The oldest and most worn-out woodcut , representing King Pippin , Two Shoes , or the grim Soldan , sitting with three staring blots for his eyes and mouth , his sceptre in one hand , and his five fingers raised and spread in admiration at the feats of the Gallant London Apprentice , can not excite in me a feeling of ingratitude .
2 Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour .
3 MERSEYSIDE 'S Junior boxing champions will be in action at the Cliffs Hotel , Queens Promenade , Blackpool , tomorrow night , when they bid for North West Counties titles against their East Lancs counterparts .
4 Already a number of British and overseas players have indicated that they will be in action at the championships and Robin is still hopeful that others will sign on the dotted line before entries close .
5 Our plan of campaign was to anchor in Studland at the approaches of Poole harbour and keep observation on shipping bound for Poole to see if any goods were being off-loaded by small boats such as yachts or fishing vessels .
6 Myles stared in wonder at the beads of sweat standing out on his forehead .
7 From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design .
8 A fourteen-year-old boy who 's been charged with twenty-seven crimes this year is spending two weeks in Spain at the taxpayers expense .
9 In Shanghai at the Teachers ' University , new regulations issued on 10 November made it obligatory for students to do physical exercises before classes .
10 Top quality mattresses are also hand side-stitched — this will look like rows of dimples around the borders to hold the springs firmly in place at the edges and to strengthen the border .
11 So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped …
12 When the Court was in residence at the Tuileries the child spent some hours every day with both his father and mother , usually in the Empress 's study , and during the periods of residence at Compiégne , Fontainebleau or Saint Cloud , he was with them most of the time .
13 It was here that Napoleon spent his working day when in residence at the Tuileries and from this study France was governed , for , as his ministers knew : ‘ The Emperor had no reason to fear that anyone doubted that he reigned ; he was even more anxious that they should know that he ruled . ’
14 An 18-point agenda was drawn up , focusing principally on the CIS charter , due to be signed in Minsk at the CIS summit of Dec. 4 .
15 Throughout the land , gullible 13-year-olds would gasp in awe at the revelations laid before them .
16 At a meeting of a cabinet committee early last month , she is said to have ‘ kicked over the table ’ in consternation at the proposals .
17 Grandson was with Edward I during his visit to France and Aquitaine in 1286–9 , and was constantly employed by him in business at the courts of France and Aragon during those years .
18 There is also the possibility of making many more measurements in such a laboratory than in experiments at the poles or in caves .
19 Stay in Banff at the Travellers Inn .
20 The craving for meat seemed to grow with the cold ; chickens were sometimes killed and eaten but never gratuitously , only in sacrifice at the gods ' demand , and the sheep and goats were away in the south .
21 But blacklisted television writers , who had to appear in person at the studios , had to ask a ‘ clean ’ writer ( or even a non-writer ) to ‘ front ’ for them .
22 Relax over a drink in the wine bar or brasserie , grab a snack ‘ al fresco ’ , or dine in style at the cafés and restaurants .
23 Chapter 3 examines some of the larger trends in society which have major significance for health care in general and the NHS in particular , looking in turn at the effects of economic re-structuring , demographic change and technological and medical advance .
24 He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna .
25 Willie stared in amazement at the fields , his thin woollen socks heaped around his ankles .
26 On October 6th we met in Malvern at the Girls ' College for an education afternoon .
27 Roots develop in abundance at the nodes on the stems .
28 Amos protests that he is no prophet in the ecstatic sense , such as were to be found in attendance at the sanctuaries of his day .
29 We engaged out-station nurses to be in attendance at the hotels by day and night , by day to supervise feeds and help the mothers get food from any shop they could .
30 But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa .
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