Example sentences of "at the [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the fun of the fair : Jim White takes a fresher look at the company a student might be keeping |
| 2 | On December 14th 1719 " Super at Mr Cockburn 11 at table 22 persons in al " there were " eating poset in cheana [ china ] high dish at the head of the table , at the foot a haunch of venison , " in the midle of the table a pirimide sillibubs and orang cream in the past , above it sweet meets dry and wet " , on the sides black pudding , partridge , larks , celery salad " made and unmade " , veal collops white sauce , " 2 boyld pullets w t persley sauce , in the midle pickles of other sort than the comon ones . " |
| 3 | Then she took up the cloth , worked at the edge a moment and tore it neatly along the weave . |
| 4 | At the top a metal drawer extended the whole width . |
| 5 | At the top a door stood ajar . |
| 6 | At the top a glass cocktail bar slowly revolved , and drinkers exclaimed gaily at the changing spectacle of industrial buildings under construction . |
| 7 | And , of course , Tita [ the Baroness ] is very energetic and is at the museum a lot and has worked very hard on it , so I think it will be a success . |
| 8 | look at the plan a minute and I 'll show you on the plan . |
| 9 | Combined with my relief that a resting-place had finally been found was satisfaction that I 'd had him with me for those first few hours and that he had not been whisked from his bed by complete strangers and reappeared , repackaged , at the crematorium a week later . |
| 10 | For 12 years from 1962 he successfully fed Edgar Hoover at the FBI a mixture of tantalising bits of fact and rubbish , including false information about Russia 's space-rocket programme which led the Americans to think they were ahead of the Russians . |
| 11 | Donna stood at the window a moment longer , gazing out at the people in the street below . |
| 12 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 13 | Police at first declined to comment on the nature of the inquiry , but at the weekend a spokesman confirmed that an imitation firearm had been recovered . |
| 14 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 15 | While I was gazing at the chamber a schoolgirl who was touring the gallery with her father came up and asked me how it worked . |
| 16 | As the bus arrived at the airport a shooting brake drew up and a party of nuns got out of it . |
| 17 | A are you still intending to favour internal spending vis-a-vis acquisition opportunities on the basis that acquisitions are just too overpriced or with the eleven percent gearing do you think you will be er jumping at the bit a bit fairly soon ? |
| 18 | At the convent a year ago I think I probably said many things which I wish now I had kept silent . |
| 19 | His special trick was to look at the floor a lot . |
| 20 | At corner Inn the ostlers were the only visible representatives , and the doors were still closed ; but at the village a number of the natives were astir , and came to a little stone pier where a boat 's crew were exchanging for the coin of the realm the sparkling treasure netted in the night season , and many of the lodgers would have the freshest of fresh herrings waiting them for breakfast . |
| 21 | At one extreme he feared communist adventurism in the Far East , and at the other a resurgence of isolationism among the American public once the Soviets had acquired a significant nuclear capability targeted on the United States . |
| 22 | While they were at the pub a fight broke out , which was declared incidental to the case in question , during the course of which a beer glass had been hurled against the ceiling and landed close to them . |
| 23 | The clause could be amended as follows : To permit the Landlord at any time during the last [ 6 ] months of the Contractual Term and at any time thereafter unless the Tenant shall have made a valid court application under Section 24 of the 1954 Act or otherwise be entitled in law to remain in occupation or to a new tenancy of the Premises to enter upon the Premises and affix and retain upon the Premises in a position so as not to interfere with the Tenant 's or any undertenant 's business being carried on at the Premises a notice for re-letting the Premises and during such period to permit persons with the written authority of the Landlord or its agent at reasonable times of the day on reasonable notice to view the Premises |
| 24 | He lifted the lid and stared at the keys a while . |
| 25 | At the bar a group of dossers began singing Roaming in the Gloaming . |
| 26 | In answer to his pull at the doorbell a butler appeared who regretted , on Charles 's enquiry for Lord Southdown , that His Lordship was out . |
| 27 | Outside at the back a curlew piped , a lonely single sound , and among the weeds of the garden sparrows cheeped and quarrelled in shrill bursts of noise . |
| 28 | ‘ You arrived at the thought a moment before I did , ’ his daughter answered . |
| 29 | The skinhead style , for all its apparent knuckleheadedness , is a consciously held pose , a deliberate turning back to earlier , more certain times when men were men and girls stuck by their blokes through thick and thin , a time when an observer could tell an individual 's social status by merely glancing down at the footwear or at the way a person walked . |
| 30 | Bodie scowled , angry at the way a family , which had asked for protection , could then make itself so vulnerable by not trusting the judgment of the men they had hired . |