Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect Age Concern do n't require that but it 's there , and they 're the sole user of it at the moment . |
| 2 | A young Paul Gascoigne has a torrid time of it at the hands of the opposition in a league football match back in 1989 . |
| 3 | ‘ Lost track of you at the Urvills ’ party , Prentice , ’ Ashley said . |
| 4 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 5 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 6 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 7 | Far down in you you felt a new stirring , a new nakedness emerging … the sudden quiver of me at the springing of my seed , then the slow-subsiding thrust . ’ |
| 8 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 9 | have a rough time of it at the moment … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll make short work of it at the end of their river trip . ’ |
| 11 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 12 | Kylie and a lifesize cardboard cutout of herself at the London launch of her debut album , simply titled Kylie . |
| 13 | On this question of construction I was in a judicial minority of one at the end of the first hearing of this appeal . |