Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cinema was at the back of the present hotel . |
| 2 | On one occasion Crawford was left hanging above the stage for ten minutes when there was a bomb scare and everyone left the theatre quickly , forgetting that the top-of-the-bill was at the top of the stage . |
| 3 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 4 | The sitting room overlooked the square , where lighted windows might be noticed , whereas the kitchen was at the back of the house . |
| 5 | It seems a bit funny for me cos I 'd have thought the kitchen was at the back so then you 'd have your dining room then . |
| 6 | The glorification of the west was at the expense of China 's own cultural heritage which could not be viewed in a totally negative light . |
| 7 | At 8.30 , the cyclist was arriving at the finish , the motorbike had arrived 5 mins before ( but note , no time had been taken in finding a parking place , which would normally be the case ) ; the car was at the Morrison St — Lothian Road junction , and the bus had taken ten minutes to reach George IV Bridge , less than a mile . |
| 8 | You did n't cos the tape was at the beginning of the tape . |
| 9 | The Princess was at the unit to launch a new leaflet aimed at raising cash to pay for research into cures for paralysis . |
| 10 | The issue was at the centre of the talks between the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , and Badran during Hurd 's visit to Jordan on May 30-31 , 1990 . |
| 11 | The EIG was at the centre of CAMRA 's response to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 12 | The milkman 's van was on the green ; Mrs Southworth from the Hall was at the pillar box , posting a letter . |
| 13 | A junction where judgments were required was signalled by the experimenter sounding a tone when the vehicle was at the centre of the junction . |
| 14 | Anger gave her the strength to pack her few belongings and by the time Ellen — red-eyed and in tears — came to say that the conveyance was at the door , there was no sign left that Ruth had ever inhabited the room . |
| 15 | You went off a main road went down another road and the village was at the end of a road and that was the end of it . |
| 16 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 17 | There was a hill there , pretty steep , and the bar was at the bottom of it . |
| 18 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 19 | Maybe the lad was at the bottom of the heap , but his spirit had not been broken . |
| 20 | The lad was at the disco one Friday evening , three or four weeks after Derek and his wife returned from Canada . |
| 21 | Once the team was at the gorge everyone pitched in to complete the task . |
| 22 | Another interesting twist to the evening was at the end of the show when the audience was invited to put questions to both performers whose answers to even the stupidest of enquiries were quick and funny with some excellent put-downs for those who dared to ask the wrong things . |
| 23 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 24 | Climbing up the pole was too dangerous as the pole was at the edge of the tower , he said . |
| 25 | Cos the skip was at the end there this , this morning , it was there at lunchtime , er , well when I went in |
| 26 | Roy of the Rovers was started as a weekly comic in 1976 , when the character was at the height of his fame in the Tiger comic . |
| 27 | The Myrcan was at the stairs in an instant with his staff in his hands . |
| 28 | The respondent was at the material times a police officer of the Metropolitan Police . |
| 29 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 30 | The other was at the Cannes flat of Mrs Bauwens 's cousin Zaki Nusseibeh , a financial adviser to the sheik . |