Example sentences of "their [noun sg] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writers and actors have been pledging their support at the start of National Library Week . |
| 2 | Almost 17 million of South Africa 's 28 million blacks live in the homelands and their support at the ballot box is crucial whenever they are finally given the vote . |
| 3 | Students are not eligible under this scheme if they : have not been ordinarily resident within the European Community for the three years preceding the start of their course at the University ; or are on an exchange programme where fees are waived ; or have attended a course normally lasting more than two years and have received a UK statutory award for this study . |
| 4 | Yeah sometimes when Rosemary was here , we did n't have any bother or anything but now and again somebody , she did their hair at the time |
| 5 | The inhabitants of Thrush Green were able to gaze their fill at the stranger on the first Sunday after his arrival , as he attended morning service in a dove-grey suit which was far better cut , everyone agreed , than those of the other males in the congregation . |
| 6 | Nearly all felt their experience at the hospitals , to which they were initially referred , to be stigmatizing and degrading . |
| 7 | It was a clockwork existence for the children , but the rapturous applause more than compensated for their tiredness at the end of the day . |
| 8 | Villagers yesterday expressed their horror at the murder . |
| 9 | Foreign Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) , meeting in Brussels on Jan. 10 , had emphasised their presence at the conference as the EC , whereas the US had invited all 12 countries individually . |
| 10 | Their presence at the hearing had been dispensed with at a meeting of the Panel four days previously . |
| 11 | Then a couple of women will clatter sweatily through a series of numbers , as close to the punters in the pub as their mum at the kitchen table . |
| 12 | I watched the cars stopping to pay their money at the toll-house and wondered if any of the drivers were tempted to put their foot down on the accelerator and go Zoom-Crash ! down to the bottom of the gorge . |
| 13 | Older people like other members of the population may consult their GP at the surgery or request a home visit . |
| 14 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 15 | They did n't even glance at each other when greeted by traditional musicians dressed in 14th-Century attire , and their suite at the Seoul Hyatt Hotel has two bedrooms . |
| 16 | Anna and Peta were presented with their award at the Savoy Hotel on April 14 . |
| 17 | In the eight years since UB40 made their debut at the Ulster Hall the Campbell brothers and the rest of them have grown in stature . |
| 18 | His big chance comes on Thursday , September 23 , when Stagestruck , the province 's newest musical group , make their debut at the Bedford Street venue . |
| 19 | All of them had been trained by the School from the age of eight or nine , eight having made their debut at the Winter Gardens at Blackpool . |
| 20 | Scores of curious seals , disturbed in their play at the foot of the cliffs , swum out to investigate . |
| 21 | They record him burning with anger against those who practised their faith at the expense of others . |
| 22 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 23 | They are Alexander the Great ; the Silver Shields ( a Macedonian corps d'élite of the early hellenistic period ) ; and the Spartans up to the date of their defeat at the hands of the Thebans at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 24 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |
| 25 | As you are aware , section 225 of the Act provides for certain laws to lose their effect at the end of 1979 , and a recent circular has been issued by the Secretary of State in this connection . |
| 26 | The manager 's commission does n't have to be the same on everything , and my initial rates with the straits were set by their lawyer at the beginning of our relationship . |
| 27 | From the early 1980s , the position began to change as first the Labour Party and then the Democrats increased their vote at the expense of the Conservatives . |
| 28 | Applicants must be commencing their study at the start of session in October and be studying at Edinburgh for the whole of the academic year . |
| 29 | Directors Tamara Chodzko and Lawren Maben have taken a lease at 100 Great Russell Street where they launched their programme at the beginning of last month with ‘ A Modest Proposal ’ ( to 16 May ) . |
| 30 | Karen had watched , wide-eyed , as this woman like a chainsaw had cut a swathe through the young men of their department at the university , apparently unconcerned with looks , or wit , or age . |