Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He faces seven rivals , including Kentucky Derby contender Dr Devious , who impressed Cash Asmussen in a gallop at Newbury on Saturday . |
| 2 | He revelled in the idea of murder , he wanted to glorify the violence of murder in a marquee at the Easter Fete . |
| 3 | only two weeks ago , I actually saw er elephants chained up by their legs , in a marquee at a British circus . |
| 4 | The waistline of her white dress , belted solid with beads and diamante , gave her the look of a page walking with a courtly gentleman disguised in black — doublet and hose lying in a chest at home an elongated miniature by Hillyard , a gentleman up to no good . |
| 5 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 6 | Feeling some shyness — he was not used to social life , and this looked to be above his station — he used the brass knocker , polished as it was to show one 's face , distorted , as though in a mirror at a fair . |
| 7 | Amid continuing tension in the capital , troops of the 500-strong Pakistani UN contingent guarding relief supplies at Mogadishu port and airport killed at least one Somali in a skirmish at the airport on Dec. 4 , the first blood shed by the force since it arrived in September [ see pp. 39085 ; 39132 ] . |
| 8 | The other day I was in a line-up at a charity bash and next to me were Simon and Yasmin Le Bon . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon met Jonquil and other young voters including youngsters who took part in a mock-election at Hummersknot School at his Grange Road headquarters . |
| 10 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 11 | I mean , I lashed out in a panic at the last moment . |
| 12 | A GROUP of parishioners from St Mary of Furness , Barrow , were recently joined by friends from other parishes in the town to take part in a retreat at Brettargh Holt , near Kendal . |
| 13 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 14 | He told Mr Richard Sturt , the Canterbury and Dover coroner , that Mr Heddle 's daughter , Caroline , a 23-year-old veterinary nurse , had identified her 48-year-old father 's body after it was found in the car in a chalkpit at Chartham , near Canterbury . |
| 15 | The first race at Brooklands was in July 1907 and the first British Grand Prix ( then known as the RAC Grand Prix ) was held at Brooklands in 1926 and won by Robert Senechal and Louis Wagner in a Delage at an average speed of 115.22 kph ( 71.61 mph ) . |
| 16 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's waiting in a coach at the door , ’ replied Rose . |
| 18 | The main — often the only — figure is placed in a panel at the centre . |
| 19 | Before we do so , however , it is important to note that the issues about the point in a clause at which processing begins , and whether such processing is both syntactic and semantic , are independent . |
| 20 | In 1964 , while Finch was filming Girl With Green Eyes in Dublin , the two Peters found themselves being refused drinks in a pub at Bray because it was after hours . |
| 21 | He was calling from a pay-phone in a pub at Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex . |
| 22 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 23 | I mean , if you 're sitting in a pub at night and some guys are showing off in a corner going ‘ Hey , what do you do , dude ’ and you go ‘ Well , I 'm a bobsleigher , actually ’ it tends to shut people up I should imagine , does n't it ? |
| 24 | To want to be a millionaire was coarse , even ridiculous ; money somehow floated down from Daddy or was waiting in a will at the end of an estate — that , though rarely the reality , was a prevailing view , and rather attractive in its unworldly dimension . |
| 25 | Of course the elves are in a wood at that moment , and they are looking at the early evening stars , but that is not what they mean . |
| 26 | Going back perhaps 200 years the Ponderosa was a little farmhouse nestling in a redoubt at the highest point on the mountain road between Belfast and ‘ Derry . |
| 27 | Continuous progress permits students to advance in a course at their own pace . |
| 28 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 29 | ‘ It did n't help me to have to live in a hotel at the time . |
| 30 | Now with a soprano who has already successfully taken the role in a revival at the Buxton Festival , Rosalind Plowright , Covent Garden is staging its own new production directed by Mike Ashman with sets by Bernard Culshaw . |