Example sentences of "at [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , at Fontainebleau the doors were thrown open so we could feast our eyes on this Most Christian of Kings . |
| 2 | CAST , ex-La 's bass player John Power 's new band , play a string of support dates at Hull The Adelphi with Pele . |
| 3 | At Barrow-in-Furness the site of the new town was owned by the dukes of Devonshire , one of whom was responsible for its planning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | At Middlesbrough the high spot is a rarely more than an ‘ eee aye oh , eee aye oh , eee aye oh ’ accompanied by much bobbing and swaying of arms . |
| 5 | At Eton the different houses and classrooms were spread over a large area , and in the next day or two I had somehow to find out where and when which masters were teaching me what subjects . |
| 6 | On arrival at Bridgnorth the train was propelled to the limit of the line when the buffer stops were reached at the Hollybush Road siding . |
| 7 | At Whitehall the petition was unloaded and carried on the shoulders of eight officers into the Commons . |
| 8 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 9 | At Greenwich the door opened behind me and someone else forced his way in . |
| 10 | After his defeat at Naseby the Parliamentarians found and published copies of his letters in which he had requested Roman Catholic troops to be landed from Ireland and from the Continent . |
| 11 | At Luxor the cruise ships often lie four or more deep at their moorings so that their passengers ' view can be of the side of the next ship instead of the river and the Theban hills , and the desert air is replaced by their neighbours ' diesel exhaust . |
| 12 | Instead , at Orléans in November , a truce was agreed until another meeting at Attigny the following May . |
| 13 | At Laruns the valley divides or , if that description is demeaning to the Gave d'Ossau , another , smaller valley joins it from the east . |
| 14 | At Highbury the trouble stemmed from the Canute-like attempts of Sir Henry Norris to halt the rising tide of transfer fees . |
| 15 | I remembered Frank baiting me at Gateshead the previous year . |
| 16 | At Ferrara the cathedral has been much altered , but the façade remains with its lower part Romanesque and the upper stages Gothic . |
| 17 | As in so many competitions however , the cash alternative is more attractive than the star prize — and at Chelsea the alternative is nearly £23m . |
| 18 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 19 | However , at Windsor the Georgians rarely got their act together . |
| 20 | At Vauxhall the unions are divided on a two-year offer of a 9.7 per cent rise plus a lump sum payment of £200 in the first year and inflation-plus-£5 in the second . |
| 21 | As at Claybury the sub-regional resource centre option seemed to be coming to the fore , this time with high-level support . |
| 22 | On the beach at Clacton the sunbathers wear blankets . |
| 23 | A joint enterprise with the Co-operative Wholesale Society , such was the prestige of the WTA 's reputation and the skill of the promotional machine that 5,000 bookings were taken in the first year , at prices two-thirds those of Billy Butlin , who had opened his second camp at Clacton the previous year . |
| 24 | The reason was that at Trico the district committee ( which in the engineering union structure is a very important body ) was dominated by the left while at Electrolux it was controlled by the right . |
| 25 | AFTER the uplifting win at Shrewsbury the gallant Quakers move out of the bottom four in Division Three and up to chairman Dick Corden 's stated target of fifth bottom . |
| 26 | At Nîmes the exterior wall , measuring 436 by 331 feet across , is in only two storeys above which is an attic used for supporting the masts of the velarium . |
| 27 | This is another world , ‘ At Whitsum the northern sky used to smoulder all night as though an arctic city were on fire ’ . |
| 28 | This is another world , ‘ At Whitsum the northern sky used to smoulder all night as though an arctic city were on fire ’ . |
| 29 | At Bukhara the station was ten miles from the old city . |
| 30 | To his amazement , the ticket collector at Euston wished him success in his mission , and on his arrival at Sheffield the porter at his hotel pleaded : ‘ I hope you 're not going to take our Dunne away . ’ |