Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [art] gates [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 2 | I shall ask him for the latest joke at the gates of heaven , . ’ |
| 3 | He could make Satan standing at the Gates of Hell shouting ‘ Come on down ! ’ look innocent . |
| 4 | There 's a proposal for The Thames Story , with tourists on Tudor barges sailing down a river in a rebuilt railway station at the gates of Hampton Court Palace . |
| 5 | Mr Bennett has bravely included the ‘ piper at the gates of dawn ’ , the chapter when Rat and Mole come into the presence of Pan , the ultimate environmental deity . |
| 6 | The front doors swung open like a piper at the gates of dawn and two of the biggest guys I 'd ever seen swaggered in wearing more black than a Valentine Dyall fan club dinner . |
| 7 | While ‘ Shine On ’ has too many holes in it ( the exclusion of Syd 's ‘ Piper At The Gates Of Dawn ’ is a gaping omission ) to be considered a ‘ definitive ’ historical document of Pink Floyd , it does contain some quite magnificent state-of-the-art rock music . |