Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded and was going to pursue the matter further when suddenly a commotion at the far end of the table drew all eyes and silenced the clamour in the hall . |
| 2 | Numbers — Although it 's good fun for three or more people to abseil down a rope at the same time , normally no more than two should be attached to the same descendeur . |
| 3 | I 'll ask Michael Colgan now to take us a bit further down a look at the costs . |
| 4 | Police broke down a door at the back of the house and ordered four people inside to leave with their hands on their heads . |
| 5 | Once Buckthorn disturbed a snake , and leapt into the air as it whipped between his paws to vanish down a hole at the foot of a birch . |
| 6 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 7 | There was perhaps a feeling at the start that we should be seen to be a body apart from the rest of ICI . |
| 8 | Charity looked serious but she was obviously a master at the game and he must not show he 'd been jolted . |
| 9 | MacTaggart and Mickels 's showpiece , Broom Estate in Newton Mearns , included bungalows with loggias , a word unfamiliar to Glaswegians in general , but obviously a bargain at the price . |
| 10 | ‘ I am only a secretary at the château . |
| 11 | Only a twitching at the edges of his vision . |
| 12 | That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one . |
| 13 | Only a professor at the Collège de France could imagine that anyone ( let alone someone who had exchanged bovine nicknames with a Masai warrior ) was capable of any such omniscience . |
| 14 | But I could just not get to sleep that night , and she was only a baby at the time , she could n't sleep . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , it 's only a job at the sawmills , ’ he replied . |
| 16 | The unease of the Chancellor-democracy is not only a protest at the executive power of the head of the government , but is also a hidden criticism of the opposition , which all too often fails to offer an alternative . ’ |
| 17 | This is only a glance at the complexity and detail of the work 's program ; full delectation of its supreme subversity means a visit to Battery Park , the City 's hugely agreeable landscaped park and esplanade along the Hudson River from Chambers to Barclay streets . |
| 18 | Deep-down below ground level was an elaborate series of lead-lined bunkers to house the clan in event of nuclear war , or even perhaps an accident at the Cernavoda nuclear plant eighty miles away . |
| 19 | He never put in an appearance at the parents ' meeting . |
| 20 | Actress Jane Asher and cartoonist Gerald Scarfe , below , also put in an appearance at the penthouse flat which looks over the River Thames to the Palace of Westminster . |
| 21 | While the Minister of Education was put in charge of selecting suitably personalized farewell gifts for each country 's contestant , he did not see fit to put in an appearance at the National Co-ordinating Commission for International Women 's Year . |
| 22 | ‘ I had best put in an appearance at the feast . |
| 23 | I doubt either can afford to stay at a hotel and I know for a fact that they 're not at any of the local hostels ; neither , I have been reliably informed , have they put in an appearance at the local ‘ hippie ’ compound . |
| 24 | Tell you one thing , though , if he puts in an appearance at the office , it 'll be the biggest mistake of his life … an' his last one ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You and I are also required to put in an appearance at the police station later , but I managed to persuade them you were n't in a fit state to answer questions right now . ’ |
| 26 | Yes , yes , just disappeared , yeah , right , right , well I 'll ask Alistair , oh well uhum , I would n't hold out a lot of hope , huh , somehow , his uhum , he puts in an appearance at the summer fair for half an hour and looks round , says I think I 'll go now , , I 'll leave you to it you know , keep the children , , that 's it , is n't it , his taken our Clare in to buy a tennis racket . |
| 27 | Claudia 's smile vanished and she blinked away a tear at the thought of the poor farmers who had been so misunderstood . |
| 28 | Although Althusser does not say so , there is thus a puzzle at the heart of his interpretation of Marx . |
| 29 | I , I assume it 's just a proposal at the moment ? |
| 30 | Again just two lanes open can slow things and a quick glance elsewhere well no real troubles reported just a look at the A One Stanford still the roadworks on the go there both north and south will slow things down . |