Example sentences of "at the [adj] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | At the recent JANE 'S ADDICTION gig at The Marquee , people were not so much holding onto their ears as trying to stop their eyeballs standing out on stalks , so plenteous were the glittering celebs out to cheer the visiting Americans on . |
2 | And you look at the recent king 's mistresses , Edward the eighth , and er , sorry Edward the seventh . |
3 | Dave , an electrical technician at Dimlington , was Commonwealth champion at Edinburgh in 1986 , and came out of semi-retirement to capture a bronze medal at the recent AAA 's championships . |
4 | We mention also that once the vehicle is at the managing director 's home , no private use is made of it whatsoever . |
5 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
6 | These were the boats left at the Belgian Congo 's independence in 1960 . |
7 | This will reduce Target 's profits that are subject to corporation tax to £100 , providing Target with an economic benefit of £33 ( assuming that it pays corporation tax at the full rate rather than at the small company 's rate under s13 ) . |
8 | The planning and costing of staffing levels , advertising , and detailed information on current catering trends are at the experienced specialist 's fingertips . |
9 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
10 | Julia looked at the present Earl 's neatly barbered head and immaculate dress shirt collar with interest . |
11 | ‘ Look at the poor bugger 's face — ’ His arm hit me across the waist . |
12 | ‘ I say , you 're in luck , ’ Modi said pointing to the note at the poor man 's foot . |
13 | ‘ It 's all right , Mrs Duncan , ’ he said gently , appalled at the poor woman 's distress . |
14 | One of the prominent candidates and activists at the Hunan Teachers ' College was eventually arrested and sent for three years to a ‘ re-education through labour ’ camp . |
15 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
16 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
17 | He stares at the hydraulic dentist 's chair , angled up to an empty sky and an open sea . |
18 | The real problem was that although Ernest Bevin and the trade union movement had swept away pacifist opposition , and won conference support for collective security for the League of Nations at the Labour Party 's Brighton Conference of 1935 , it was by no means fully committed to rearmament . |
19 | This policy was confirmed at the Labour party 's Bournemouth Conference in October 1937 . |
20 | The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours . |
21 | That is the biggest criticism that we can lay at the Labour party 's door . |
22 | Although at the time it was seen as no more than the correction of an anomaly , only at the Labour Party 's annual conference in 1979 was the formal position of the Leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party brought into line with the de facto position by his being accorded the title of ‘ Leader of the Labour Party ’ . |
23 | Also I express surprise at the Labour leader 's volte face a short while ago in the press he reported that he had more important matters to think about , or discuss insofar as fox fox hunting was concerned or words to that effect . |
24 | At the Crimean Republic 's Supreme Soviet sitting on Sept. 25 , amendments were adopted to rectify the " defects " in the Constitution as adopted in May [ see p. 38924 ] . |
25 | At Birlik ( Unity ) , a radical nationalist movement , they are forced to camp out at the decrepit Writers ' Union building , where rotting rubbish is piled high in the corridor . |
26 | The small fellow pulled at the tall boy 's trouser leg . |
27 | Gnaws at the great Tree 's root , and makes his nest , |
28 | Perhaps this is the Rev. Fred Levison 's ‘ line ’ with his customers at the religious books ' stall ? |
29 | at the rich man 's gate . |
30 | Gloom at the rich men 's club |