Example sentences of "[noun sg] at [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his defeat at Naseby the Parliamentarians found and published copies of his letters in which he had requested Roman Catholic troops to be landed from Ireland and from the Continent . |
| 2 | Below you will find a match report for our thrilling 11–0 defeat at Alborne the other week , which Ted included in a recent letter . |
| 3 | If we now increase the current in the opposite direction B will decrease further reaching zero at R , and negative saturation at S. The other half of the curve STUP displays the same behaviour . |
| 4 | In ten years ’ time , we 'll probably look back with fondness at Drop the Dead Donkey and remember it as being really funny . |
| 5 | Another important development in my academic career in 1962–1969 was a close association with the Survey of English Usage : a research centre for the study of present-day English founded by , and attached to my Department at U.C.L. The most important part of the Survey 's work was the compilation of a large corpus of modern English texts , both spoken and written . |
| 6 | My father had first er he had , him being an engineer , and had been working in Glasgow after his er having served his apprenticeship at Amos the , it was the thing to go to Glasgow in these days which was the centre of all engineering activity , and er to gain experience he went to Glasgow . |
| 7 | Lily — she became in my mind at night the abandoned young prostitute . |
| 8 | Inside the college at Lincoln the students thought that this teacher was a fine teacher and fun but too odd to be offered responsibilities ; and outside the college were a plethora of people who were not the university of Cambridge , anxious to offer every variety of job , pastoral , academic , or administrative . |
| 9 | In December 1924 a press release stated that Her Majesty the Queen had graciously given permission for the house to be exhibited at the ninth Ideal Home Exhibition to be held by the Daily Mail at Olympia the following March . |
| 10 | The association of sex and musical imagery reaches a splendid climax in this tale as Alison and Nicholas enjoy " " revel " " and " " melodye " " in bed to a devout musical accompaniment as : The use of animal imagery to describe Alison prepares us for her response to Nicholas 's first assault : while the images of the trave , a frame for holding a horse to be shod , and of the final night of the tale " " derk … as the cole " " , prepare us for the brief scene at Gerveys the blacksmith 's forge ( 3760 – 85 ) . |
| 11 | Pippin " fled " back to Aquitaine , and welcomed an unexpected ally : Bernard , who had lost forever any chance of recovering great influence at Louis the Pious 's court . |
| 12 | In the work at Daresbury the atoms to be studied are created in nuclear collisions produced by an accelerated beam of particles from the NSF . |
| 13 | If England decide on changes for the second Test at Lords the bowling department is the one most likely to suffer , with DeFreitas ' name top of the list unless he produces something special in front of Gooch . |
| 14 | Just to the south at Stanwell the C-Class ‘ boats of Imperial Airways , whose individual names were later adopted by the BOAC Stratocruiser fleet , are commemorated by such titles as Canopus Way , Cordelia Gardens and Clyde Road . |
| 15 | On the western clay plateau at Orwell the number of customary tenants who held yardlands or half-yardlands declined during the first thirty years of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 17 | Norton 's Coin won four point-to-points out of ten runs over three seasons and then developed into a good chaser : by the time of his Gold Cup attempt he had won four of his fourteen races under Rules , including a valuable chase at Cheltenham the previous April . |
| 18 | This magnificent stag rules the herd , he 's been busy keeping at bay the 8 other stags which stick together in their own batchelor group on the fringes of the herd . |
| 19 | By the time of the World Council at Amsterdam the question began to come into Ramsey 's head what he ought to do next . |
| 20 | Well , this time I did well — almost got a badge to stick on my lapel saying ‘ I was a brave girl at Martyn the dentist 's today ’ . |
| 21 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |
| 22 | In the summer of 1306 there took place at Montreuil the first of a series of meetings ( ‘ processes ’ ) between French and English representatives to try to work out the legal position of the lands held by the English in Aquitaine . |
| 23 | Otherwise a point at Hamilton the following week will earn Nicholl 's men entry into the big time . |
| 24 | But no American politician , especially a wealthy one , is going to last two minutes if he 's caught looking down his nose at folk the way the French do . |
| 25 | Laugh off the endless epithetising of everyone who crosses his path — his ‘ pretty elder daughter ’ , the ‘ renowned tailor ’ , even my own guest appearance as ‘ that respected mountaineer ’ ; roar aloud at the over-the-topness of the following : ‘ That evening at dinner the flap of our tent opened and in strode a figure of heroic majesty . |
| 26 | Instead , at Orléans in November , a truce was agreed until another meeting at Attigny the following May . |
| 27 | They met in November and not again until December 1885 when at a public meeting at Ballygrant the attendance was rather small " the day being very stormy . " |
| 28 | They met in November and not again until December 1885 when at a public meeting at Ballygrant the attendance was rather small " the day being very stormy . " |
| 29 | As was clear from the district initiative at Exminster the alternative strategy , a long-term programme of upgrading the asylum wards to modern standards , would hardly have been countenanced by the most avid , non-expert supporter of public spending . |
| 30 | From Readymoney Cove at Fowey the coast path is clearly signed to Polkerris . |