Example sentences of "at [noun prp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had told him then , or even when the man had reappeared in her life at Helmsley she would now be on firmer ground . |
| 2 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 3 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 4 | Do you know , at Fontainebleau he set up a system of mirrors so he could watch his young ladies pose and inspect them from every angle , whilst his palaces were full of secret passageways with peep-holes in every bedroom for Francis was deeply interested in the sexual exploits of others . |
| 5 | At Fontainebleau he was full of the juices of spring but that 's before he caught syphilis and his nether parts began to drop off . |
| 6 | Dalziel sighed and looked over at Pascoe who was sitting quietly in the furthermost comer of the room . |
| 7 | Socially reclusive , emotionally recessive — it might be asked whether Larkin had any life at all ; the student radicals at Hull who daubed denunciations of him in the university lavatories presumably thought that he should get one . ’ |
| 8 | There was also a great spirit of unity among the workers and , although the statements were coloured with rhetoric , it was emphasized that at Wolverhampton , ‘ The whole of the workers stood firm and were prepared to fight to the bitter end ’ and that at Hull there was ‘ Alarm — fear — despair — a victorious army disarmed and handed over to its enemies . ’ |
| 9 | At Loughborough it has been found that the optimum type of laser for this purpose is a yttrium-aluminium-garnet crystal containing traces of the element neodymium . |
| 10 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 11 | At Pemberley the ‘ many family portraits … could have little to fix the attention of a stranger ’ ; at Sotherton they are ‘ no longer any thing to any body but Mrs Rushworth , who had been at great pains to learn all that the housekeeper could teach ’ . |
| 12 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 13 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 14 | At Eton he taught mathematics . |
| 15 | When a boy arrived at Eton he was allocated to a " classical tutor " who oversaw his work and gave him special tuition . |
| 16 | At Eton he had been known as ‘ Hitler Hurd ’ , but events had mellowed him . |
| 17 | At Eton I had passed School Certificate , but without the credit in Latin which was indispensable for getting to Oxford . |
| 18 | At Eton I had enjoyed the Field Game but loathed cricket , and had not played soccer or rugger since my preparatory school . |
| 19 | At Eton I had read every book I could lay hands on about the Zulus , about Abyssinia and about the rise and fall of the Dervish empire in the Sudan . |
| 20 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 21 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 22 | The entertainments team put on lively shows and just hours after arriving at Romantica I agreed to ‘ star ’ in their evening production of the musical ‘ Grease ’ . |
| 23 | She devised the decorations at Middle Temple following a design used by Elizabeth I herself for a party at Whitehall which is described in detail in the State Papers . |
| 24 | Now what will nineteen ninety two bring for Gloucester Rugby Club … the league championship … well the cherry and whites are joint top of the first division and they 're the only team left with a one hundred per cent record … on saturday at Kingsholm they beat Rosslyn Park by twelve points to nine … |
| 25 | Gloucester still fighting for survival … its the game of the season for the cherry and whites … its the game they want to win more than anyother … last season at Kingsholm they pulled it off … they squeezed home by two points … it was 14-12 to Gloucester and win or lose there 'll be nothing in it tomorrow |
| 26 | In 1696 an Act of Parliament " for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen " had provided that mariners , irrespective of rank , should pay 6d. per month out of their wages to support the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich which should act as an alternative to the parish relief which few sailors were able to claim even if they wished to do so . |
| 27 | When John Hawarde , a lawyer , was summoned from his rooms in the Temple to attend the Privy Council at Greenwich he had to pay Mr Ward , the Clerk of the Council , a royal for recording his appearance , 6s. 8d. for his entering into a bond , and 6s. 8d. for the bond itself . |
| 28 | On the 4th August 1601 , in the Privy Chamber at Greenwich he was received by Queen Elizabeth I where he presented Her Majesty with his Pandecta of all her rolls , bundles , membranes and parcels that reposed in Her Majesty 's Tower at London . |
| 29 | At Trebetherick you paddle on Daymer Bay , or shrimp off Gully , or collect cowries on Greenaway . |
| 30 | Here at Buscot it has widened out again , the fair Isis , and the walled garden of the Old Parsonage stretches down to meet it , full of box hedged paths , damask and china roses , with clematis climbing everywhere and Kiftsgate roses in the apple trees . |