Example sentences of "[noun] for [pron] [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the days , while the man slept , Boy would sleep a little himself , in a chair , in preparation for his nights at The Bar ; but mostly he would stare out of the window at the city , or stare at the television . |
| 2 | Cooperative Solutions Inc , the San Jose-based developers of Ellipse , a combined development and run-time system for developing transaction-processing applications on local-area networked workstations and servers , is gearing up to announce Unix support for its products at Unix Expo next week . |
| 3 | He corresponded with members of the Royal Society , had lodgings in Christ Church parish , Newgate Street , London , and sought support for his projects at court and in Parliament and the City . |
| 4 | was seconded to the Thames Valley force at Reading and established the Pilgrim 's matches at Henley for his colleagues at the Met . |
| 5 | All men refuse to take responsibility for their actions at some time or other during their lives , and some men so consistently shirk their duty that they present more the appearance of overgrown children than of adults . |
| 6 | A few philanthropic or canny employers provided housing — most notably , from 1888 W. H. Lever built a spectacular model village for his employees at Port Sunlight and from 1895 the Cadbury family developed Bournville as a garden suburb for Birmingham workers . |
| 7 | Group Chairman , George Rosevear , welcomed over 80 members of the public to the first meeting , and then presented the Cycle Sponsor team of the Torquay Boys Grammar School with their headmaster , Mr Pike , with a WWF plaque and personal badges to the team for their efforts at raising £280 for WWF . |
| 8 | Big business interests have been quietly buying up Latvia match tickets to ensure seats for their clients at the Republic game . |
| 9 | Mark Smith and Carl McEwan are busy revising for their A-levels at Abingdon College in Oxfordshire . |
| 10 | May I therefore pass on to the Prime Minister the good wishes of all my constituents for his efforts at Maastricht and hope that when he has finished there he will come up to Derbyshire and tell us all about it ? |
| 11 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 12 | John Tennant ( 1725–1810 ) , the father of the family , is thought to have been a witness to the baptism of Robert Burns , and it was he who joined the poet 's father , William Burness , in hiring a young school teacher for their sons at Alloway . |
| 13 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 14 | Plans were formulated for DTI courses and examinations for our officers at all levels , comparable with those of the Merchant Service . |
| 15 | With production going full steam ahead seven days a week , three-ton Anna 's earnings for her bosses at Whipsnade wild animal park , Beds , have soared to around £55,000 a year . |
| 16 | The 1989 AMERG survey of architects , however , indicates that a substantial minority ( over 28 per cent ) felt that the demand for their services at the time was not being adequately met and nearly 40 per cent felt that the intake of students into architectural training was insufficient to meet future demands . |
| 17 | Yes , won a prize for my tomatoes at the Woodstock Horticultural Show ! |
| 18 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 19 | On the other hand there is much reason to suppose that , had there been no major threat to the Eurasian balance of power , trade and other economic differences would have been the most prominent issue , particularly if those in the United States who favoured multilateral and freer trade had gained sufficient backing for their policies at home . |
| 20 | He enlisted in the Life Guards in 1807 , and won renown for his exploits at the battle of Waterloo where he reputedly killed ten French soldiers before succumbing to his own many wounds . |
| 21 | Now Rhoda had stopped work she would go down to the newsagent on the corner for her cigarettes at the same time every morning , each day a little lighter on her feet . |
| 22 | Baxter 's work and his royal connections made him famous during the years directly following the Great Exhibition and he gained public recognition for his achievements : he was awarded the great gold medal of Austria ( 1852 ) , and medals for his exhibits at the Great Exhibitions in New York ( 1853 ) and Paris ( 1855 ) , was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1855 ) , and received the grand gold medal of Sweden ( 1857 ) . |
| 23 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 24 | After the concert , Branson explained how difficult it was to sell Oldfield 's music in America ; indeed , the only way Virgin had been able to find an American distributor for his records at all was on the back of a deal made for a new group on the label , XTC — precisely the kind of music Oldfield abhorred . |
| 25 | Increasingly however , they will have to look to other institutions , sometimes another school but more often a College of F.E. , to provide specialised courses for their students at set times in the week . |
| 26 | The Training Department has also been involved in CCG 's expansion and over the past three months trainers have been delivering induction courses for our openings at SG Warburg , British Gas Heysham , Sunderland schools and recent public sector contracts . |
| 27 | This should clearly demonstrate to employers that the G M B takes this issue seriously and negotiators at all levels should be encouraged to approach employers to purchase personal attack alarms for their employees at risk . |
| 28 | In the USA , domestic airlines choose hubs for their operations at smalltown airports whose natural characteristics would never justify the high level of air transport now available to them . |
| 29 | William of Malmesbury , who was collecting material for his histories at Canterbury at this time , put the news of their discovery into his Gesta Regum , and inserted the complete texts under the year 1072 into his slightly later Gesta Pontificum . |
| 30 | George , who also won a VC for his part in a daring naval exploit at Zeebrugge , died on his 31st birthday , and James , who won a Military Cross for his actions at the Somme , died of his wounds at 28 . |