Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stolen car stopped , forcing Pc Hurley to brake and around 20 youths appeared and started throwing concrete missiles at the patrol car . |
| 2 | When the rosy spectacles are laid aside , it is clear that what to the husband and children can be a refreshing hobby — after all they are more often than not the consumers , not the producers , of the home-made jam — to the wife can be another variant of the natural mother image and in everyday terms can mean longer than ever hours at the chopping board . |
| 3 | Lissa adjusted her foothold on the sloping riverbank and stared crossly at the cabin cruiser moored on the gently rippling water . |
| 4 | She sat up , flicked on her torch and looked thoughtfully at the cabin window . |
| 5 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 6 | Ariel had laid down Sycorax at the cabin entrance , under the dappled broad shade of a mango tree . |
| 7 | Roman glanced over his shoulder from his laconic position at the cabin entrance , watching as Caroline , clad in white Bermudas and canary-yellow shirt , darted around in the cockpit of the yacht , efficiently dealing with the paraphernalia of setting sail . |
| 8 | The pie parade , which included about fifty floats which had started from the neighbouring village of Scissett , arrived late at the pie field , having been stuck on various sections of the route , including the entrance to the field itself . |
| 9 | Stopping at the truck stop in Toledo we get the usual ‘ Is there a circus in town ? ’ and the most popular , used by children of all ages , ‘ Mummy , that girl 's got red hair ! ’ |
| 10 | The new cuts — 273 at the truck plants in Leyland , Lancs , and 76 at the Albion Axle plant in Glasgow — take the total number of redundancies since the company collapsed earlier this year to almost 2,300 . |
| 11 | 768 at the truck plant in Leyland ; |
| 12 | If you have received " delay not determined " before failure , and no subsequent Eat do not land at the destination airfield . |
| 13 | Then the n words beginning at the source address are transferred to an area beginning at the destination address . |
| 14 | Transport between destination airport and your hotel or apartment ( except where car hire has been booked at the destination airport ) . |
| 15 | A closer look at the DoNH budget reveals extraordinary disparities ; including the fact that they will , by 1995–96 , be giving more than 10 times as much to each of several central London museums than they are for all the national activities and programmes of the English Tourist Board . |
| 16 | A line of cabs at the taxi rank waited for their drivers to emerge , not as normally from the green cabman 's shelter reeking of cabbage and saveloys , but from the long humped air-raid shelter among the dusty trees . |
| 17 | Their strength probably comes from a combination of partial sintering and concentration of the glass phase at the grain boundaries , as is shown in the typical scanning electron micrograph of the structure ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 18 | This effect causes impurities in solids to accumulate at the grain boundaries ( and also vacancies , that is , holes ) and this may cause the grain boundary to become a line of weakness . |
| 19 | general manager , added , ‘ I would like to thank every member of staff at the Grain Terminal for their support and co-operation over the years . |
| 20 | Our children , 9 , and , 10 , are still asleep , but I take a cup to my wife before leaving home in time to arrive at the Grain Terminal before 7.00 am . |
| 21 | Some members of the group may arrive at the consensus view ahead of the others but even then it is not a matter of persuading the others . |
| 22 | Angry Caroline , 26 , told an industrial tribunal that Mr Garber seized the saucy snaps after she left them in the staff room at the Trim N Proper salon in Ickenham , Middlesex . |
| 23 | The tunnel ended at the Schoenfelder Autobahn alongside which ran the trunk telephone cables connecting the main East German government offices , the Russian intelligence ( KGB ) headquarters at Karlshorst and the Russian Army headquarters with Warsaw and Moscow . |
| 24 | For example , at the Castelnovo apartment type C , 4 customers taking their own car on 25 April for 14 nights are entitled to a reduction of £270 per person . |
| 25 | No bluebirds over the white cliffs ; the lights are shining bright at the ferry port . |
| 26 | Length of quay at the discharge berth measures 130 metres . |
| 27 | Another system uses a small filter , or algae trap , at the discharge side of the pump . |
| 28 | The day after Antwerp 's cultural capital programme started last month , the celebration 's most important exhibition opened at the Koninklijk Museum . |
| 29 | The plea for an understanding of ‘ totality ’ in Situationist writing derives from Lukács and Marx whose critique of ‘ separation ’ is directed exactly at the work/leisure distinction . |
| 30 | Chairman Sylvia Robinson said most delegates , who met at the Corn Exchange , in Bury St Edmunds , felt strongly about the issue . |