Example sentences of "at [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAST , ex-La 's bass player John Power 's new band , play a string of support dates at Hull The Adelphi with Pele . |
| 2 | At Barrow-in-Furness the site of the new town was owned by the dukes of Devonshire , one of whom was responsible for its planning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | On arrival at Bridgnorth the train was propelled to the limit of the line when the buffer stops were reached at the Hollybush Road siding . |
| 4 | At Whitehall the petition was unloaded and carried on the shoulders of eight officers into the Commons . |
| 5 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 6 | At Greenwich the door opened behind me and someone else forced his way in . |
| 7 | At Luxor the cruise ships often lie four or more deep at their moorings so that their passengers ' view can be of the side of the next ship instead of the river and the Theban hills , and the desert air is replaced by their neighbours ' diesel exhaust . |
| 8 | At Laruns the valley divides or , if that description is demeaning to the Gave d'Ossau , another , smaller valley joins it from the east . |
| 9 | At Highbury the trouble stemmed from the Canute-like attempts of Sir Henry Norris to halt the rising tide of transfer fees . |
| 10 | At Ferrara the cathedral has been much altered , but the façade remains with its lower part Romanesque and the upper stages Gothic . |
| 11 | As in so many competitions however , the cash alternative is more attractive than the star prize — and at Chelsea the alternative is nearly £23m . |
| 12 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 13 | The reason was that at Trico the district committee ( which in the engineering union structure is a very important body ) was dominated by the left while at Electrolux it was controlled by the right . |
| 14 | At Bukhara the station was ten miles from the old city . |
| 15 | To his amazement , the ticket collector at Euston wished him success in his mission , and on his arrival at Sheffield the porter at his hotel pleaded : ‘ I hope you 're not going to take our Dunne away . ’ |
| 16 | ( At Hellesdon the Way carries on from the five-mile Norwich Riverside Walk ) . |
| 17 | However , at Cosmeston the archaeologist has the opportunity to excavate a large portion of the settlement over a long period of time and to use the results to shed light on sites where the excavators have not been so fortunate . |
| 18 | At Weston-super-Mare the stall proprietor asked him to leave because he was winning too much . |
| 19 | At Wolverhampton the carriage had all but emptied , leaving only a sleeping woman cradling a badminton racket . |
| 20 | At Rouen the fuel filters were so good that they took all the dye out of the fuel and became clogged , so we only finished second . |
| 21 | The old bulk cargo cranes were once used to unload iron ore onto freight trains bound for Shotton steelworks at Deeside the traffic requiring the most powerful locomotives available on British Rail . |
| 22 | At Millook the cliff rocks are made of sandstone and shale layers which have been folded over millions of years into zigzag patterns . |
| 23 | Poorly organised as were the French medical services , demand far outstripped supply almost throughout the war , but several times at Verdun the system threatened to break down altogether . |
| 24 | Equipment in these hospitals was hopelessly inadequate , but at Verdun the situation was exacerbated still further by the poisonous environment , virulently contaminated by the thousands of putrifying corpses . |
| 25 | At Oslo the performance of transferring the kit was an epic . |
| 26 | At Peniel the blessing runs true to form . |
| 27 | And though at Arsenal the manager continued in the role of club supremo cast by Chapman , elsewhere — with few exceptions — it was still the directors who had general control . |
| 28 | Once past Black Head speed over the ground increased as the tidal stream lessened and on arrival at Falmouth the yacht was finally secured alongside the lifeboat and manoeuvred onto a mooring just after 0400 . |
| 29 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 30 | At Fobney the light has gone so we stop and fit the torch and then plough on once more . |