Example sentences of "at the [noun prp] fair " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glance around the London hotel scene shows examples of plenty of exceptional women who have made it to general management ; Madelon Boom , at the age of 26 , at Hyatt 's Lowndes Hotel ; Dagmar Woodward at The May Fair Inter-Continental ; Doreen Boulding at The Conrad Chelsea Harbour , etc . |
| 2 | McQuaid had either struck true by pure chance or had picked up reliable gossip at the Mohill Fair . |
| 3 | Elvis 's huge ballad repertoire needs little commentary here , save to stress that it began not with the move to RCA but at Sun , ‘ Love Me Tender ’ ( 1956 ) and ‘ That 's When Your Heartaches Begin' ( 1957 ) being preceded by equally sentimental ballads cut for Sam Phillips ; indeed , it began earlier — when , as a boy , Elvis was entered for a talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair , it was the sentimental country and western number ‘ Old Shep ’ that he sang . |
| 4 | In the same note he claims that , in some sense , he was ‘ more modern ’ than good Pope John ( he mentions his appearances at the Milan Fair as evidence ) ; and says ‘ perhaps our life is marked by love of our own time , of our world more clearly than by anything else ’ ( ibid . ) |
| 5 | ‘ No , I 'm really looking for the people who told my fortune at the Puck Fair , ’ I said . |
| 6 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |