Example sentences of "to a [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said Mr Hargreaves 's bicycle had been found chained to a sign at the start of a trail , which winds its way through thick forest to the vast Mendenall glacier , just north of Juneau in south east Alaska . |
| 2 | As a result , on 15 October 1896 , he was appointed to a sub-committee at the Science Museum alongside twenty-five other distinguished engineers , with the objective of establishing a permanent railway museum . |
| 3 | ‘ You had a great loss in not seeing Coleridge , ’ she wrote to a friend at the end of June . |
| 4 | Farmers change their minds about access to a river at the last minute , according to the vagaries of the harvest . |
| 5 | They took me along to a service at the North Shore Christian Fellowship on the Sunday after the Night of the Great North Wind . |
| 6 | Professor Thomas Gordon joined them for breakfast at the New Inn , after which they went to a Service at the ‘ English chapel ’ , that is to say , the Episcopalian , that is to say , the Anglican church in Scotland . |
| 7 | When they came in sight of the house it was to see Ellen Jebeau standing on the terrace , and when Martin drew the horse to a standstill at the foot of the steps she was there to meet them . |
| 8 | In October 1936 , matters came to a head at the so-called Battle of Cable Street . |
| 9 | Matters came to a head at the International Congress of Proletarian Writers held at Kharkov in November 1930 . |
| 10 | Things came to a head at the Apprentice Boys ' parade in Derry on 12 August . |
| 11 | Although in some dioceses individual families came close to obtaining a monopoly over the episcopate , in others there was considerable rivalry which came to a head at the time of episcopal elections . |
| 12 | Go over a fence to the left of the house to a burn at the back . |
| 13 | He turned to a door at the end of the room . |
| 14 | He walked over to a door at the far end of the office and flung it open . |
| 15 | Wycliffe followed him down a carpeted passage to a door at the end , a small room overlooking a regimented back garden with a substantial Swiss-type chalet in the middle of the lawn . |
| 16 | Bacteria found in pond , marsh and swamp sediment have been discovered to " eat " chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , according to a scientist at the US Geological Survey , Derek Lovley . |
| 17 | He managed to catch a brief glimpse of him talking to a man at the end of the platform . |
| 18 | Once he went to a Prom at the Albert Hall . |
| 19 | Later that month Alistair went along to a reading at the Screenplay Society in Earl 's Court . |
| 20 | Later in the day a notice was hammered to a tree at the entrance to the orchard . |
| 21 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |
| 22 | At lunch time half a dozen of us would go to a pub at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Euston Road . |
| 23 | ‘ Which room ? ’ the orderly said to a nurse at the desk that oversaw the entrance to the ward . |
| 24 | Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary has developed new technology that could save lives : it 's called image link and it allows images from hospital scanners to be transmitted down the telephone line to a consultant at the Infirmary . |
| 25 | ‘ Is n't he confined to a wheelchair at the moment ? ’ |
| 26 | After walking from 9am to 4pm all were invited to a dance at the Assembly Rooms , and the ‘ enlivening sport was kept up to a late hour ’ , according to a newspaper report . |
| 27 | Safer to close his eyes and his mind to her and give his entire concentration to the matter in hand ; a resolution to which he firmly held , even when , after a tumultuous welcome at Brighouse — the nearest railway station to Frizingley — he was escorted , with an appropriate accompaniment of banners and Chartist hymns , to a lodging-house at the top of St Jude 's street where the landlady , Mrs Sairellen Thackray , had offered to accommodate him free of charge . |
| 28 | In the old days , with Arnold Weissberger , most of London 's theatre and social worlds were bidden to a suite at the Savoy overlooking the Thames . |
| 29 | At first she managed from their home up in Yorkshire ; later , as the pace grew more hectic , she moved down to a suite at the Adelaide in London . |
| 30 | ‘ Aye — ’ she rose from the chair , went to a basket at the side of the hearth and , taking up a log , she almost flung it on the fire , and as she dusted her hands she ended , ‘ that 's what she tells me . |