Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE encounter a difficulty at the beginning of this part of the book by directing our attention to the solution of ‘ legal ’ problems . |
| 2 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 3 | ‘ The UK may have won a battle at the Maastricht summit , but not the ‘ war ’ , says David Lomax , Group Economic Adviser at National Westminster Bank , in his January economic review . |
| 4 | Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge . |
| 5 | The confidence was knocked out of me after I had won a scholarship at the age of eleven and was sent to a school in Hampshire . |
| 6 | Lisa Keenan , 17 , from Oxton has won a place at the University of Northumbria , while Lisa Hudson , 18 , from Claughton will study at the Preston-based University of Central Lancashire . |
| 7 | Critical respect is no problem — and the innovative video for his last album , Infected , even won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival , despite the troubling sexism of a couple of its sequences . |
| 8 | Undaunted by their failure to attract a buyer at the sale , Alexia Lindsay ( of the Ephemera stall ) drove them afterwards to Chorley in Lancashire , where a shop called Girls Gone By gave 200 for them . |
| 9 | His eyes made a swift study of her face , before he cast a glance at the sky . |
| 10 | D'Arcy cast a glance at the door . |
| 11 | It must be a trapped bird , he thought , noticing a door at the front where there was a partitioned-off section . |
| 12 | Eanflaed 's kinship with Oswine subsequently obliged Oswiu to found a monastery at the place of Oswine 's death at Gilling in Yorkshire in expiation of his murder ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 13 | After working as a structural engineering designer he was a draughtsman with aircraft firms before becoming a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in civil engineering and aeronautics ( 1922–39 ) . |
| 14 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 15 | Julia Roberts ' beauty did n't stop Pretty Woman becoming a smash at the box office . |
| 16 | Therefore , we decided to offer prolonged treatment to the remaining patients who approximated a response at the end of the scheduled therapy ( partial response ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Yer man here — ’ he jerked a thumb at the bath' — lost most of his fingernails trying to hang on . |
| 18 | Still to come a look at the day 's financial news and er sports news . |
| 19 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , first financial report though in association with Barclay 's Bank for your financial needs . |
| 20 | Still to come a look at the day 's sport , and there 's a new signing for Oxford United . |
| 21 | Still to come a look at the opening shots in the Independent Enquiry into the fate of Rover 's Cowley works and the questions that Bicester 's friends of the earth say you must ask any candidate in the local elections . |
| 22 | You drew a blank at the Park Avenue apartment , I assume ? ’ |
| 23 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 24 | The tour will include a look at the air force 's newest operational bomber , the B-1B , but not the radar-evading B-2 , also known as the Stealth bomber . |
| 25 | ‘ You would win a battle at the Forth crossing . |
| 26 | I did n't get thrown very often , but that is no good if you still do n't win a medal at the end of the day . |
| 27 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 28 | The Shrewsbury Biscuit is n't quite as famous as the Bakewell Tart , but is on sale in most of the bakers ; you can buy a recipe at the Tourist Office . |
| 29 | And here lies a contradiction at the heart of AT&T 's original business , even before it tried to get into computers . |
| 30 | White , of no fixed address , was arrested after he threatened to detonate a bomb at the NatWest in Piccadilly , London . |