Example sentences of "at a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grinned at her , then swished at a shrub with his cane and asked , with studied casualness , ‘ And will you stay here at Bishopstow ? |
| 2 | They hope to find clues to the structure of the highly complicated social organisation which hints at a hierarchy with ‘ leaders ’ and ‘ subordinates ’ . |
| 3 | Tritsch Tratsch had been mounted for Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet ( the first performance was at a matinée on 20 September 1947 ) and was an immediate success . |
| 4 | When a human being does X in order to do Y , the achieving of Y is his reason for doing X. When an animal does X in order to do Y , he does not do X for a reason , even though he is aiming at a goal in doing so . |
| 5 | Perez hints at a tie-up with Information Builders Inc for its Focus 4GL ( possibly the EDA/SQL middleware for accessing various databases too ) . |
| 6 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 7 | Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern . |
| 8 | She 's at a kind of college of citizenship in Bath . ’ |
| 9 | Nenna had just time to say , I must be going , before she came back , tottering at a kind of dignified slant , and holding a large tin of cheese straws . |
| 10 | ‘ Which is why you decided to try your hand at a kind of modelling that would pay better , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 12 | He professes to be an atheist but met his wife at the Youth Fellowship at a church in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Bishop James Xie Shiguang , 74 , from Xiapu in Fujian province , and two priests , Fr Zhu Rutan and Fr Zheng Xinzong , had been arrested in July 1990 at a religious discussion meeting at a church in Fujian . |
| 14 | It was at a church in Hertford . |
| 15 | He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour . |
| 16 | It is suddenly hoisted into the air by a set of teeth , and becomes so delightfully frightening that the horses snort and leap — and your jumper disappears at a gallop down the paddock . |
| 17 | Rincewind did so , and watched the nervous Broadman , who had arrived at a gallop from some back room , lead the way up the wooden steps behind the bar . |
| 18 | The institutional investors that charged into junk bonds in the 1980s have now headed off at a gallop in the opposite direction . |
| 19 | Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose we 'll see passenger flights after this , ‘ he looked thoughtfully at a bottle of beer . |
| 21 | He sucked at a bottle of Guinness , and went on fingering the rounds . |
| 22 | Then , or at home looking at a map of Britain , the West calls , out of Wiltshire and out of Cornwall and Devon beyond , out of Monmouth and Glamorgan and Gower and Caermarthen , with a voice of dead Townsends , Eastaways , Thomases , Phillipses , Treharnes , Marendaz , sea men and mountain men . |
| 23 | If one looks at a map of the line , bridge No 352 carried the country road from Rothley plain to Swithland village , beneath the line at Swithland sidings . |
| 24 | But even looking at a map of an area you already know can be interesting . |
| 25 | Come and have a look at a map of the Channel . ’ |
| 26 | A glance at a map of Cleveland County shows the meanest intelligence like mine that four boroughs , including Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh , make up the county . |
| 27 | I think it 's quite important to orientate ourselves first , and you 're looking at a map of Oxford in 1643 , erm and 17th century maps for the most part are what we should call upside down . |
| 28 | After we had been locked in I spent the evening making preparations with Malleson 's help : sewing on buttons , dubbining my boots , making a pillow case into a rucksack and staring at a map with unreal names on it like Danzig and Berlin . |
| 29 | According to Lincoln 's recollection subsequently , he glanced at a map in his office and decided within ten seconds that the 38th parallel was the correct demarcation line between the zones of American and Soviet occupation . |
| 30 | This sequence is carried out by hardware , which also checks that the stack pointer remains pointing at a location within the stack area . |