Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the approach to the bridge I take off my burdens and lay them down . |
| 2 | Two riders turned in at the approach to the castle , the rest of the cavalcade swept onward through the gate , flung open to give them passage , and vanished in a flurry of spume and fine mud along the foregate . |
| 3 | Three hundred feet the down rose vertically in a stretch of no more than six hundred — a precipitous wall , from the thin belt of trees at the foot to the ridge where the steep flattened out . |
| 4 | 7 It 's terrific to see her without the bars between us. 8 She sits eating the treat food at the opening to the door and looking at me. 9 How does she know to look into my eyes and not at the huge finger next to her . |
| 5 | The dole-queue starts at the exit to the playground . |
| 6 | There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard . |
| 7 | It occurred to me that it might after all have really been a child , from one of the cottages at the bay to the east ; someone who had come to help Maria . |
| 8 | Night fishermen fished at the outflow to the power station until morning , by which time they were dizzy , vomiting constantly , and their skin had acquired a nut-brown nuclear tan . |
| 9 | BNFL 's Information Services Director Jeffrey Preece added : ‘ We were delighted at the response to the competition . |
| 10 | General manager Michael Prendergast said he was amazed at the response to the job vacancies . |
| 11 | Having hoped to raise about £1,000 and afford perhaps 300 mats , I was absolutely delighted at the response to the article you carried and the generosity of those who contributed . |
| 12 | It 'll remind you that Ninfania was n't always like this ’ — and he waved at the window to the town outside , beyond his closed shutters . |
| 13 | Paige did as she was told , not looking at the distance to the ground . |
| 14 | But it presents a major difficulty at the outset to the writer of general history . |
| 15 | Cassie looked curiously at the door to the hall . |
| 16 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 17 | At the door to the marquee they exchanged greetings with scores of other guests , gradually making their way inside . |
| 18 | Family and friends left flowers and wreaths at the door to the building in Boughton , Chester , which now houses a women 's fashion shop on the ground floor . |
| 19 | Parents are often heard warning their child at the door to the nursery ‘ Now do n't be naughty today ’ as a farewell rather than ‘ Have a lovely time ’ . |
| 20 | At the door to the street , Monks turned again to Mr Bumble . |
| 21 | Anne caught her at the door to the bedroom . |
| 22 | As he ate , he opened and closed drawers , he examined papers and objects on his desk : ‘ I 'll let you loose in the west gallery and catch you up at the door to the stock-room . |
| 23 | Coalition was the negation of the party system , for as party assumed a grouping from the centre to one of the extremes , coalition assumed a grouping at the centre to the exclusion of extremists . |
| 24 | But the commoners are angry at the threat to the tradition , and say they 'll fight for their land . |
| 25 | The gesture was a symbolic expression of the abhorrence felt by growing numbers of people at the threat to the future of the African elephant posed by a particularly bloody trade and will have gained widespread support . |
| 26 | The Jacobites now threatened to bombard Carlisle if the castle did not surrender , causing the remaining militia , on 15 November , to desert , leaving Durand with only the ‘ invalids ’ to form the garrison , while the civil authorities , horrified at the threat to the town , seem to have encouraged him to capitulate . |
| 27 | This produced a defensive posture at the gateway to the system : admission was to be avoided if at all possible , and only used as a ‘ last resort ’ . |
| 28 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 29 | At my parents house , erm , in that , we 've had an extension in there , so the garden 's not there any more , but erm , I used , the light used to come in from the windows , so of at , at the angle to the bath , so I could n't lift my leg up , so I rub it gently like this , and I 'd watch the told me where I missed bits and |
| 30 | At the climax to the debate a few minutes ago the hon. Member for Cunninghame , South ( Mr. Lambie ) was addressing a single Labour Back Bencher . |