Example sentences of "at the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies . |
| 32 | It makes an illuminating contrast having Ives 's much more idiosyncratic setting of At the River as well as Copland 's . |
| 33 | Quickly dragging her gaze from his splendid body , Polly stared with intense concentration up at the mainsail , then down at the compass as embarrassment flamed her face . |
| 34 | Yes , yes it is , it 's , it 's in Assembly Rooms which is slightly more gracious than the rather large er main building , and the mayor has very kindly er given the room , given us permission to use the room free of charge , and she will also be there at the performance as she is er , seems very interested in our work to date . |
| 35 | Julie snatched at the knife as the man disappeared back into the blackness outside . |
| 36 | Battle-weary after the 4 hour 42 minute match , which had finished , it was little wonder that the two of them embraced at the net as 15,000 rose as one to acclaim such magnificent entertainment . |
| 37 | She sang Susanna earlier this summer in Simon Rattle 's period Figaro for Glyndebourne ( due to be seen on BBC TV before Christmas ) and is now back at the Coliseum as Pamina in Nicholas Hytner 's luminously hieroglyphic Magic Flute . |
| 38 | She looked across at the scene as once again the actress ran and fell and the gunmen rose from the car wrecks where the nudes lay or sat reading aloud . |
| 39 | Morse smiled wanly at the lady as she sat in the front row , a lady turning the scales at not much more , surely , than around five stone . |
| 40 | Another investigation , looking at the problem as it were from the opposite direction , compared adoptees selected for later estimates of their creativity and then examined incidences of mental illness . |
| 41 | Police said they had no idea why Roberts was at the court as he was not due to appear on any charges . |
| 42 | About 20 travellers turned up at the court as one of their group , Gary Frost , 28 , father of a year-old daughter , was due to appear from custody . |
| 43 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 44 | while confusion reigned at Aintree … they were celebrating at the County Ground as Swindon won again and complaining at the Manor as Oxford lost again … here 's the action |
| 45 | One can therefore presume that he was not looking at the landscape as scenery but as habitat . |
| 46 | Flg Off Leslie Manser , 20 , died at the controls as his crew escaped from their crippled Manchester bomber . |
| 47 | Seb arrived at the cottage as the half-gipsy girl was leaving and asked her what she had said to Anna . |
| 48 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |
| 49 | The issues of weapons shipments , attempts to achieve a ceasefire in El Salvador , and the stalled demobilisation of the contras were expected to dominate the two-day summit , which Mr Arias described at the weekend as critical to the future of the peace process . |
| 50 | PRESIDENT Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania last night defied international condemnation of the massacre of demonstrators by his security forces at the weekend as reports indicated tens of thousands had again taken to the streets of in Timisoara , escalating the crisis . |
| 51 | RIVAL Democratic presidential candidates Mr Bill Clinton and Mr Jerry Brown taunted each other at the weekend as mudslinging in the battle for votes in tomorrow 's crucial New York primary reached a new low . |
| 52 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 53 | HUNDREDS of thousands of Macaulay Culkin fans packed cinemas at the weekend as Home Alone 2 blitzed Britain . |
| 54 | Bunbury , 25 , played for Canada at the weekend as they lost 3–2 to El Salvador in a World Cup qualifier . |
| 55 | BRIGADE batsmen Marshall Kilgore and Stephen Smyth hit top form at the weekend as their club cruised into the third round of the All Ireland Schweppes Cup . |
| 56 | Antiscum did OK at the weekend as it happens . |
| 57 | CARNMONEY will be coming up roses at the weekend as the local Presbyterian Church hosts one of the biggest events in its social calendar . |
| 58 | Meanwhile , the Welsh centre , Mike Hall , missed Cardiff 's 18-13 defeat by Llanelli at the weekend as he is troubled by a groin strain . |
| 59 | AMERICAN university students gave the Prince of Wales a rousing welcome at the weekend as he continued his first overseas trip since the December announcement of the collapse of his marriage . |
| 60 | POLICE yesterday named the man whose body was found lying in a street in Aberdeen 's Mastrick housing estate at the weekend as Richard Green , 44 , a window cleaner from the Deansloch area of the city . |