Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stolen car stopped , forcing Pc Hurley to brake and around 20 youths appeared and started throwing concrete missiles at the patrol car . |
| 2 | When the rosy spectacles are laid aside , it is clear that what to the husband and children can be a refreshing hobby — after all they are more often than not the consumers , not the producers , of the home-made jam — to the wife can be another variant of the natural mother image and in everyday terms can mean longer than ever hours at the chopping board . |
| 3 | ‘ He put his foot between the two bottom rungs of the ladder and then caught at the upright to save himself from staggering . |
| 4 | This happens because each eye looks at the pencil from a slightly different angle . |
| 5 | Trent could n't see whether the track ran on to the quarry or stopped at the cabin . |
| 6 | One of them waved a greeting at the cabin — the sergeant , Trent presumed . |
| 7 | Students in the bed race compete with the Blackpool Belle for the attention of photographers at the Cabin in 1979 . |
| 8 | Ariel had laid down Sycorax at the cabin entrance , under the dappled broad shade of a mango tree . |
| 9 | Roman glanced over his shoulder from his laconic position at the cabin entrance , watching as Caroline , clad in white Bermudas and canary-yellow shirt , darted around in the cockpit of the yacht , efficiently dealing with the paraphernalia of setting sail . |
| 10 | Sighing , she swivelled round , looking at the cabin properly for the first time . |
| 11 | Lissa adjusted her foothold on the sloping riverbank and stared crossly at the cabin cruiser moored on the gently rippling water . |
| 12 | She sat up , flicked on her torch and looked thoughtfully at the cabin window . |
| 13 | She drove out for an early lunch at a small diner down the road and was back at the cabin by half past twelve . |
| 14 | Grabbing a robe and a towel , she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door . |
| 15 | They arrived at the cabin . |
| 16 | The pie parade , which included about fifty floats which had started from the neighbouring village of Scissett , arrived late at the pie field , having been stuck on various sections of the route , including the entrance to the field itself . |
| 17 | Back at the truck all was despondency in the gathering gloom . |
| 18 | Stopping at the truck stop in Toledo we get the usual ‘ Is there a circus in town ? ’ and the most popular , used by children of all ages , ‘ Mummy , that girl 's got red hair ! ’ |
| 19 | The new cuts — 273 at the truck plants in Leyland , Lancs , and 76 at the Albion Axle plant in Glasgow — take the total number of redundancies since the company collapsed earlier this year to almost 2,300 . |
| 20 | 768 at the truck plant in Leyland ; |
| 21 | He did n't wait , just aimed his Heckler and Koch MP5K at the helicopter , one-handed , and opened fire . |
| 22 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 23 | ‘ They went as far as the railway crossin' on the other side of the tunnel , talked to the man on duty at the halt there , then turned back . |
| 24 | Transport between destination airport and your hotel or apartment ( except where car hire has been booked at the destination airport ) . |
| 25 | One driver will arrive at the destination ready to deal with the next thing , the other will be on edge , probably snappy and even with dangerously raised blood pressure . |
| 26 | Then the n words beginning at the source address are transferred to an area beginning at the destination address . |
| 27 | The air waybill was designed as an acknowledgment of receipt of goods from the consignor , and as a notice of shipment to the carrier ( and especially to his agent at the destination ) , a notice which would also enable the identification of the consignee . |
| 28 | If you have received " delay not determined " before failure , and no subsequent Eat do not land at the destination airfield . |
| 29 | She picked up the ticket , opened it , looked at the destination . |
| 30 | For foot traffic , a distance of some 10–12 km ( 6–7 miles ) would probably have been a more-than-adequate day 's journey , especially if burdened with goods and needing to leave enough time for their disposal at the destination . |