Example sentences of "at a [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police were last night hunting two youths who threatened staff at a newsagents on Ford Estate , Sunderland before stealing the till . |
| 2 | Paperboy Ben Cosstick was back on his delivery rounds today , just forty eight hours after being held at gunpoint during a robbery at a newsagents in Bletchley . |
| 3 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 4 | The move , announced at a birds of a feather session at the recent Usenix conference in San Antonio , Texas , marks the end of one of the most influential strands in the development of Unix technology over the years . |
| 5 | Mr Patten was speaking at a Newspapers In Education conference in Bristol , which is looking at ways of getting children involved with their local paper at an early age . |
| 6 | Friends of the Earth have found Brazilian rosewood , from the country 's fast-disappearing Atlantic coast rainforests , openly on sale at a suppliers in Derbyshire . |
| 7 | When I was er , you know this Saturday morning work and weekend you know this weekend , but not Saturday morning this weekend work and holiday work at a tailors in Runcorn , the manager of that shop , gentleman 's outfitters right , the manager of that shop , there 's two other men worked in there full time and myself at holidays and weekends or if they were on holiday you 'd have to work , you know , the erm to cover one of those and he , the manager was brought up , he 's , brought up , his training was in Liverpool , in tailors where they , a man would produce a suit for somebody |