Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | The open-air Museum shows buildings removed from the Ulster countryside and re-erected at Cultra in a setting made to resemble the landscape from which they came . |
2 | ‘ I 'd like something little and gay , ’ said the woman , smiling at Melanie from a mouth painted the very palest possible orange . |
3 | Dawn Run then won the Sandeman Hurdle at Liverpool and the Prix la Barka at Auteuil as a prelude to her victory in the Grande Course de Haies d'Auteuil , the French equivalent of the Champion Hurdle . |
4 | I. Industrialists use the advantage of the transshipment of goods at Hull for a number of flour mills and also oil-seed mills which make cattle cake . |
5 | The Bears start the season at Middlesbrough against a Danish select team on Thursday night . |
6 | Flavia Sherman smiled sympathetically at Chuck for a moment then turned to her husband with an ill-concealed sigh of exasperation . |
7 | On the same day , Gloucester stole a march by beating the champions , Bath , at Kingsholm in a fierce encounter during which another England prop , Bath 's Gareth Chilcott , was sent off for punching . |
8 | Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University . |
9 | The change brought some unexpected experiences and challenges , but all my years as a Head were full of interest and happy working relationships and I thoroughly enjoyed my career , a memorable and refreshing interlude in it being the Centenary summer term back at Somerville as a Schoolmistress Fellow . |
10 | These were also the last vehicles to be constructed at Wolverton with a clerestory roof . |
11 | Arsenal , who received around 2,000 tickets for Saturday 's clash , have made plans to show the game live at Highbury on a giant video screen . |
12 | Armstrong , who was born in Hebburn and worked with Crosby in Kuwait , was reluctant to leave a secure coaching job at Highbury for a one-year contract at Roker . |
13 | With the main outage completed and the holiday season pressure easing , TOP Team activity is gathering momentum at Torness after a couple of months in the doldrums , writes Executive Support Manager Mervyn Jenkins . |
14 | Her win at Brighton in a tough final has proved , even to those who still doubted after her Wimbledon win , that she is back ! |
15 | Their latest lead is a vague description of a man at Sharpness in a car in which Carol Clark was a passenger . |
16 | News of the possible buyout came on the day on which production restarted at Leyland after a deal between suppliers and the receiver , Arthur Andersen . |
17 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
18 | Her brother , Paul Roberts , also works at Runcorn as a weaver . |
19 | In this way many kept an account going at Gieves over a period of years for a modest monthly sum of two or three pounds . |
20 | Seeds arrived at Chelsea from a diversity of sources : for example , species of Aster : A. grandiflorus , found by Catesby in Virginia , A. nervosus from Pennsylvania ; A. chinensis ( now Callistephus chinensis , the China Aster ) sent to France by missionaries and thence to Chelsea and of this species , a double white from ‘ my worthy friend , Dr. Job Baxter of Zirkzee , Holland ’ ; and finally A. amantus and A. procumbens from William Houstoun in Vera Cruz . |
21 | Racing at Ayr up in Scotland where it is dry , Nottingham , Cheltenham where the Mackeson Gold Cup is , big card at Windsor with a lot of runners and finally the all-weather racing at Lingfield . |
22 | Gilbert 's eyes seemed glazed , and Jimmy looked at Cardiff in a way that seemed to say : We 've got to shut him up , Cardiff . |
23 | Ipswich say they are not interested in 33-year-old New Zealander Mitch Shirra , who is available at Swindon with a £10,000 fee on his head . |
24 | Woodger made his Palace debut on 1 November 1905 at Swindon in a United League game , helped us to a 6–1 win and scored two goals . |
25 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
26 | ‘ You mean — ’ Hoomey looked at Nutty with an unexpected lurch of alarm . |
27 | Known to some as the Capacious Curate because of his considerable appetite , he was doubly blessed at Sunderland by a visit to the Methodist church near the Roker End . |
28 | And the winner of the two-dog match will then take on Crayford 's Poor Sue rated to be the best stayer in the country at Sunderland in a £6,000-to-the-winner match on June 24 . |
29 | The Research Programme has always been considered vital at Henley as a means of training people for academic appointments . |
30 | I still can not say whose bomb did turn the Tirpitz over , But this is all good for morale ; like the piece of the Tirpit : that I was able to secure for these two happy squadrons , encased in a large frame of good British oak , and displayed at Binbrook as a trophy of what Willie Tait and his gang of two — 617 and 9 , or 9 and 617 , the choice is yours — achieved . |