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

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1 WITH its every utterance the board down at Feethams is approaching the moment when it will have to give a vote of confidence to its manager .
2 A fort was probably constructed to guard the bridgehead either at Rochester or at Strood on the opposite bank , although no traces have yet been found .
3 ‘ I 'm sure you wo n't find that 's the case here at OBEX , ’ said Rachel crisply .
4 Passenger boarding and alighting will not be possible at Far Stanley as is the case currently at Gretton .
5 To question him in detail and endeavour to reconcile his answers , to closet him with accountants and sharp practitioners learned in the wiles of insolvency and bankruptcy , was only to put the case out at compound interest of incomprehensibility .
6 Most schools , I am glad to say , have aquariums and goldfish , water snails , weeds , stones , shells are to be observed carefully and often and the children can then create a picture from a real experience , not necessarily from direct observation , but with the experience near at hand for reference when needed .
7 it on in the kitchen then at home ?
8 He visited the sanctuary late at night , finding it guarded by Diktynna 's ferocious sacred dogs .
9 Luke took a few steps forward , then flicking his wrist , sent the lash out at waist-level .
10 Yours is the skin most at risk from sunburn , premature ageing and skin cancer , and you need the strongest protection .
11 Do not simply saw the trunk off at soil level as this will later attract honey fungus .
12 One came from a great fire on the shore where the pirates sat singing and drinking ; the other came from the Hispaniola out at sea .
13 THE Ulster roar , which nearly tore the roof off at Cheltenham as Rhythm Section won the Tote Festival Bumper , will be just a whisper compared to the reception The Committee will receive if he wins next Saturday 's Aintree showpiece .
14 But neither player will be in the side today at Villa Park .
15 Postie Jim Goldsmith used a canoe to get the mail through at PAPWORTH ST AGNES , Cambs .
16 The speed with which Adobe Systems Inc managed to close the deal over at Sun Microsystems Inc for its PostScript , Display PostScript and other imaging technologies ‘ came down to the wire , ’ according to Dano Ybarra , marketing manager for Adobe 's display products group , one of the mentors of the agreement ( UX No 404 ) .
17 You know , boy , when you 're on the marsh alone at night , you imagine all kinds of things , voices calling , guns firing , soldiers marching !
18 Tidal mudflats occur at the mouths of nearly all Sussex rivers , along the coast principally at Pevensey Bay and from Pett to Rye Bay , and most notably in the tidal basins of Pagham and Chichester Harbours .
19 Markets and fairs remained perquisites of the manor even at Lewes , the capital of East Sussex , where otherwise a rudimentary form of self-government was well established .
20 He pictured Belpan 's President as he had last seen him , barefoot and casting for bonefish from the end of the dock out at San Paul Key .
21 Her face was dirty and her gown stained , and like Jehana she had cut the skirt away at thigh level .
22 How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint .
23 Jeanne and Germaine went to the Dôme or the Rotonde regularly at aperitif hour to meet Modigliani and Roger Wild ( who was to become Germaine 's husband ) .
24 I saw the engine powerfully at work , its wires running to a monstrous figure , about which the scientist flitted in nervous excitement , Presently the figure sat up in its bandages .
25 Indeed , when he had solutions to problems , he sometimes went to the lab late at night and left his ideas on slips of paper for people to find in the morning — without knowing how they got there .
26 On the completion of the work here at Halling , to celebrate the opening of his new Palace , a great party , or perhaps the word should be banquet took place , for at the Palace on St. Andrews Day , 1324 , Haymo entertained a great many guests of distinction , and high rank , from throughout the county .
27 Henry 's had his royal progress , since have it he would , now perhaps those of us who do the work here at home may find our hands a thought freer . ’
28 Among them were Mr Reed , Nicholas Wells , who had put the issue together at County , and Martin Gibbs , head of corporate finance at Phillips & Drew , County 's stockbroker at the time , although he has since retired .
29 Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks .
30 No the Indian up at Sudbury
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