Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] [noun] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of what had happened , some of her excitement at the thought of seeing Czechoslovakia had ebbed . |
| 2 | Jackie Marston , manager of the hospital social workers , was still negotiating funding for social work links with these surrounding districts when I met her and some of her team at the hospital . |
| 3 | It is an inexorable consequence of classical physics that such an accelerating electron radiates off some of its energy at a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the electron 's circulation . |
| 4 | We finally reached the top — to discover that the party behind had used some of our gear at a belay . |
| 5 | that if we pass on some of your comments at the end of the section , maybe they 'll be able to arrange , maybe in two or three months time a visit that most of us can make , particularly those of you who missed it , because it is an important experience , but obviously quite difficult to arrange , because it involves real tenants and real people but we can pass that back , and I 'm sure the officers will consider it . |
| 6 | I meet some of my customers at the start , running for charity , who thump me on the back and feel good because there 's someone they recognise in the milling crowd of shivering runners . |
| 7 | Ha face was pale , her eyes dark-rimmed , and this assuaged some of my pain at the nun 's silly chatter . |
| 8 | He suddenly thought of using it to play a joke on some of his friends at the Post , concealed it in his newspaper and left the pub . |
| 9 | Similar impressions are obtained from other examples of this type : ( 22 ) He did not want to be alone , and had expected to find some of his friends at the bar . |
| 10 | An explanation for the phenomenon ( sometimes known as Kondratiev waves after the economist who first identified them in 1925 ) was proposed by Joseph Schumpeter and has since been adopted , extended , and supported by empirical studies by Christopher Freeman and some of his colleagues at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University . |
| 11 | If some of us despair at the seeming lack of real competition to them in Scotland , Hateley 's reaction permits not a whit of concern . |
| 12 | I did n't say anything about this to my parents at the time , but the sight haunted me for years . |
| 13 | It was so clear in his mind , he could hear his nan 's voice , even smell that strangely comforting smell of scorched linen as she pressed down on the iron , and yet he had understood little of their conversation at the time , had n't understood , in fact , until years later . |
| 14 | In some ways Balbinder seemed the least of her problems at the time . |
| 15 | It was n't possible to have a conversation unless her earphones were connected , but this was the least of her worries at the moment . |
| 16 | It was obvious that oceanic crust must be continually destroyed somewhere at a rate comparable with that of its creation at the oceanic ridges in order to maintain a balance . |
| 17 | He had accomplished nothing and he may well have meditated on the difference between his situation and that of his uncle at the Erfurt meeting with the German Princes in 1808 . |
| 18 | I spend much of my time at the shops ; wandering through the aisles , faltering , never knowing what to buy . |
| 19 | At present we 're spending much of our time at the hospital , as a visitor — because our mother 's turned up at last . |
| 20 | He recently retired as editor of the Eye but he still spends much of his time at the magazine 's cramped offices in Soho . |
| 21 | I drank too much in my break at the adjacent Queen 's Hotel and would sometimes share a pint with the night porter on my way home at four in the morning . |
| 22 | The manager ca n't justifiably desert either of his regulars at the moment but knows that if he walked the street and canvassed the fans there would be only one answer : bring on the Frenchman ! |
| 23 | ‘ We have to talk about it but I will be doing that with my colleagues at the FA before I talk to anyone else . ’ |
| 24 | In Britain the Midland Railway Company announced its intention in 1872 to admit third-class passengers to all of its trains at a penny-a-mile fare and in 1874 to abolish second class and reduce all first-class fares to second-class rates . |
| 25 | They have been replaced by a Labour leadership keen to blame many of their problems at the Government 's door . |
| 26 | For more than half the road up you climb between more beech forests — the beech flourishes in these parts because it likes the moisture — and in spring or autumn you get that seasonal effect , whereby the trees that are only starting to turn brown at the foot of the pass are already losing many of their leaves at the top , or alternatively are still half-wintry at the top when already fully greened lower down . |
| 27 | Blanche found the gesture patronising , symbolising the way she was treated by many of her superiors at the Metropolitan Police or creatures from the male world of spies . |
| 28 | For these services the king allowed Amenhotep to place statues of himself near to those of his sovereign at the Karnak temple , which was a great honour . |
| 29 | Simply , the Queen has spent far more of her life at the heart of politics than any of the party leaders . |
| 30 | Thus , along with several of his contemporaries at the Palace , Ronnie Dunn was only really appreciated by the Palace fans and not on the bigger stages that his prowess deserved . |