Example sentences of "at a [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her first encounter with Medau at a rally given by Molly at Reigate in 1958 determined her to become a teacher . |
| 2 | Having gained the initial advantage , the company can then price at a level to give itself a profit but still deter rivals , who face higher costs from entering . |
| 3 | The idea was thrashed out at a lunch given by Kenneth Horne . |
| 4 | At a lunch given by in Brussels Commission President Jacques Delors the emperor , attending his last official function during a visit to Belgium , joined Delors in stressing the importance of greater contacts between young people . |
| 5 | Several of the buildings were destroyed by a fire at a date given as c . |
| 6 | Shortly after , at a date given both as 443 and 447 by the same chronicle source , they were settled in Sapaudia . |
| 7 | The Queen had said at a banquet given by Emperor Akihito that the atrocities had caused a " deep gulf " between the two countries ; Netherlands figures indicated that some 21,320 of the 138,500 internees had died during their internment . |
| 8 | We meet them here at a party given by Ella and Dimity . |
| 9 | At a party given by John Harvard for the Herbert Reads in June , he came with fireworks and some items bought at the joke shop opposite the British Museum : sugar which when immersed let out little fish , and chocolates which he thought to be filled with sawdust but were in fact made of soap ; the guests , he said , " set on me " . |
| 10 | Last summer I was down in London on business and … er … it happened that , by chance … through some friends , I ended up at a party given by … er … well , some people in Holland Park . |
| 11 | Once , Bill Pertwee — again a staple member of the cast — remembered for me , Kenneth Horne made him write to the wife of an executive he thought Ken had insulted at a party given by the BBC for the Round The Horne cast . |
| 12 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 13 | THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 2 October : Princess Alexandra and Sir Angus Ogilvy were present this evening at a Reception given by the Prime Minister and Mr Denis Thatcher at 10 Downing Street to launch the Harold Macmillan Trust . |
| 14 | The first time I saw Mlle de Montijo was at a reception given by Princess Mathilde for the Duchess of Hamilton ; I was struck by the beauty , the grace of this foreign girl , and I asked who she was . |
| 15 | Captain 's convention — ( l-r ) Naas Botha , F.W. de Klerk , Nick Farr-Jones and Sean Fitzpatrick looking for nuggets at the bottom of Shaft 14 at a reception given by the State President in the week before the Ellis Park test . |
| 16 | Eliot had first met Williams — of all unlikely settings — at a tea-party given in London by Lady Ottoline Morrell , and felt ‘ a kind of benediction ’ emanating from this curious bespectacled creature who ‘ appeared to combine frail physique with exceptional vitality ’ . |
| 17 | He said , No Emma I ca n't there 's no way I can be at a wedding to give you away at nine o'clock . |
| 18 | Contexts which do activate more than one sense at a time give rise to the variety of oddness we have labelled zeugma : |
| 19 | Thus confidential data can be stored on such a disk and the user of this data can physically remove it , even take it home with him if he so desires , thereby ensuring that the information can not be seen by any unauthorised persons This control over sensitive data coupled with the fact that the computer is personal to one user at a time gives the operator a greater sense of confidence in , and control over , the machine he is using . |
| 20 | So is the formula for the famous cheese soufflé which so wonderfully conceals melting whole poached eggs , an old dish of French cookery and one served by Boulestin at a luncheon given at his restaurant to celebrate the publication by Cassells on 26 September 1936 , of the autobiography entitled Myself , My Two Countries . |
| 21 | The trophy was handed over by Dick Minnis at a luncheon given by the donor in the Boardroom of the Great Northern Railway on Saturday , August 28 , 1943 . |
| 22 | At a briefing given on September 19 , Dr Michael Fopp , Director of the RAFM , announced that , starting on November 1 and taking until February 7 next year , Hendon will see the departure of five airframes and the arrival for display of six ‘ new ’ aircraft . |
| 23 | They are first mentioned as a not very arresting topic of conversation at a soirée given by the Dambreuses . |
| 24 | The impromptu petition was apparently drawn up at a dinner given by the Society of Dilettanti and sent to the Arts Minister , Mr Richard Luce . |
| 25 | 5 October : The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon , Patron of the Friends of St John 's Smith Square , was present this evening at a Concert given by Dame Joan Sutherland and Mr Richard Bonynge in aid of St John 's Organ Appeal . |
| 26 | At a command given by the sensei , every member of the class shows his respect to the instructor by bowing . |
| 27 | The cab paused at an intersection to give right of way to a car chase . |