Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 2 | Suddenly I just could n't stand it any longer and said I 've GOT to push and she came out like a champagne cork at 8.15 a.m . |
| 3 | Gaynor Wynne was filming her with a camcorder during a champagne reception at the Imperial Hotel . |
| 4 | Charlie no longer played rhythm guitar but stood clutching a mike stand at the edge of the stage , howling at the kids , who pogoed like road drills , and spat and lobbed bottles until the stage was littered with broken glass . |
| 5 | She made her début in Paris in 1909 with Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes , in New York in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House , and in London in 1910 in a variety performance at the Palace Theatre . |
| 6 | In the Templemore area , two Velux windows were stolen from a building site at College Glen at the weekend , while a substantial quantity of cigarettes were stolen from a variety store at Spencer Road in the Waterside on Thursday night/Friday morning . |
| 7 | The wholesomeness of the Tiller dancers suited the Popplewell family who presented a variety show at the Gaiety Theatre , Ayr . |
| 8 | A VARIETY concert at Glengormley High School next week will raise funds for a local home for the profoundly handicapped . |
| 9 | As we started the long walk back across the tundra to Camp Bell , we decided that there was nothing for it but to establish a base camp at the foot of the cliffs . |
| 10 | Even when complex formulae are used it has proved possible to find two , which give extremely good fits to the natural curve , but provide base levels differing by about 60 m ( almost 200 ft ) for a base level at about 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( Miller , 1939 ) . |
| 11 | The remains of fish are rare , as we would expect , although Evans ' excavators found fish vertebrae in a cooking pot at Knossos . |
| 12 | Leicester lie sixth in the First Division after a midweek defeat at Charlton and may make a change of captaincy . |
| 13 | YOUNG Hustler , normally a Saturday runner , has his routine disrupted with a midweek engagement at Worcester today . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal has the advantage ( if dealing with cases such as these after the trial judge has made the initial decision ; it is difficult to say on the basis of these cases how a trial judge at first instance should approach them . |
| 15 | Trading giant Mitsubishi Corp has gained exclusive sales rights for Japan to the SNA ps5520 software package that connects the IBM Corp AS/400 used as a host with the Apple Computer Inc Macintosh as a client : the company already sells a similar package which connects IBM mainframes and Macs ; the software , as reported , was developed jointly by IBM and Apple , and has been localised by a Mitsubishi-related software house and the package will be sold through IBM Japan office systems dealers , Mac dealers and systems integrators ; the SNA ps3270 emulator is already installed on a trial basis at some 10 large companies , Mitsubishi says ; it looks to sell around 5,000 copies over the next year . |
| 16 | Several could not recall subscribing to Channel 7 ; one had refused to subscribe ; one had signed up for a trial period at some point ; and the majority had been unhappy with the service . |
| 17 | Agents are usually appointed for a trial period at first , with extensions to the contract after that . |
| 18 | We are now at the crossroad , we need wider support and help both moral and financial and there will be a bucket collection at the end of this session . |
| 19 | If he has the slightest doubt about his ability to launch safely , bearing in mind such hazards as swinging to one side or a cable break at any stage , then he must refuse the launch . |
| 20 | Nicola , 23 , claims the ghost has also thrown a kitchen chair at her . |
| 21 | A man was taken to hospital suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation yesterday after a kitchen blaze at his ground-floor flat in Lutterworth Road , Longbenton , Newcastle . |
| 22 | The Cartwright family , for example , who maintained a very large estate at Aynho , Northamptonshire , valued the work of a kitchen maid at £3.10s per year . |
| 23 | Last July , an inmate held a warder hostage at knifepoint for 13 hours . |
| 24 | The ESRC , together with the Information Systems Committee ( ISC ) of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , have set up a Census Initiative at a cost of some £3.1 million to make information from the 1991 Census available to academics for teaching and research . |
| 25 | Many governors are likely to preside over a case conference at some time during their term of office and for chairmen , particularly those serving large schools , it may become a regular and frequent experience . |
| 26 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 27 | Gumnutland is on a branch line at Wanneroo , near Perth in Western Australia . |
| 28 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 29 | Age Concern Cleveland will be holding a fundraising evening at the New Albert , Grange Road , Middlesbrough , on June 24 . |
| 30 | Judge Robin David , QC , made the comments to a jury dealing with a burglary case at Chester Crown Court where Hindley and Brady were tried . |