Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | are — as if at a Brecht play — bereft of secure containment within illusion , and forced to take responsibility , conceptually at least , for the reshaping of reality beyond the page . |
| 2 | From the mound , he heard voices of people singing , as if at a banquet . |
| 3 | At last , as if at a secret signal , people leave off their fur hats . |
| 4 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 5 | Meredith in the high flow of his talk would describe anybody of whatever age or sex as ‘ gentlemen ’ as if at a council meeting . |
| 6 | Then , as if at a given signal , they all take flight and head across the voe to their roosting places in the sea caves , where they spend the night , dry if not very warm ! |
| 7 | as if at a prearranged signal a chant began high up in the gallery : ‘ Fascism means Murder ! |
| 8 | as if at a signal , nine silver-helmed figures stepped from the forest and stood round the edge of the glade , spears glinting in the gloom . |
| 9 | Speaking brightly to close the gaps , as if at a party ) : So it 's getting near Christmas . |
| 10 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 11 | Grant looks this way and that , as if at a junction . |
| 12 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |