Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then you will tell him to come to a place that I will tell you of and at a time that I will tell you . |
| 2 | Meredith in the high flow of his talk would describe anybody of whatever age or sex as ‘ gentlemen ’ as if at a council meeting . |
| 3 | From the mound , he heard voices of people singing , as if at a banquet . |
| 4 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 5 | as if at a signal , nine silver-helmed figures stepped from the forest and stood round the edge of the glade , spears glinting in the gloom . |
| 6 | She looked around the vestibule , suddenly aware that this room where she ate a brioche and drank milky coffee as if at a feast of the gods on those mornings when she managed to get up in time was a mere dingy parlour , the curtains grey with city smuts , the tables pocked and charred by cigarettes . |
| 7 | Grant looks this way and that , as if at a junction . |
| 8 | Speaking brightly to close the gaps , as if at a party ) : So it 's getting near Christmas . |
| 9 | There will be redundancies in the Army , as in every armed force of any significance in the western world , but the Army Board intends that redundancies should be spread evenly throughout the Army and that people in the regiments facing amalgamation will not be discriminated against or at a disadvantage , compared with those whose regiments may not be so affected . |
| 10 | Berkeley sees that , to his identification of mental ideas with real things , ‘ it will be objected that we see things actually without or at a distance from us , and which consequently do not exist in the mind ’ . |