Example sentences of "of [pron] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home .
2 The two large men chased the smaller man , caught him and then proceeded to bash his brains out in front of everyone at the tables — or so it seemed .
3 You — you took advantage of me at a moment of weakness . ’
4 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 . ’
5 He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped .
6 It broke my fall but the strain of this was too much ; it ripped out of the wall and landed on top of me at the foot of the stairs .
7 The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat .
8 Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment .
9 Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror .
10 I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose …
11 rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I .
12 ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said .
13 The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time .
14 When they reached the base of the steep drop into the valley , they spotted Bob Lamb striding out ahead of them at a brisk pace .
15 T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness .
16 Instead he received all of the 3,813 papers , but each of them at a reduced value .
17 The effect will be the same as in the distribution of a primary surplus : in the simpler system the transfer of a proportion of the available votes , the transfer of all of them at a reduced value if the senatorial rules are used .
18 Different theoretical traditions , it is sometimes claimed , belong to ‘ incommensurable paradigms ’ ( Kuhn , 1962 ) ; one can work within only one of them at a time .
19 They should always be placed in the same positions each time ; you should be able to put your hand on any of them at a moment 's notice : no scrabbling around !
20 It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time .
21 When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so .
22 You act on one of them at a time , and then decide which , if any , is going to be most productive .
23 The main purchasers of bills are the discount houses , which then sell many of them at a slightly higher price , to the banks .
24 These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum .
25 at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’
26 IR was born in America in the 1940s to service the nation 's host of small private investors ( 47m of them at the latest count ) .
27 He will learn of them at the end , when it is all over , and even then only indirectly .
28 He has eaten plenty of them at the Brighton guest house where the Commonwealth of Independent States team , paid for by race sponsors ADT , have stayed since arriving .
29 Boys who did not , remained in the elementary-school system ( in , as will appear , most cases ) to linger on like dispossessed giants until the system and my grandfather let go of them at the age of fourteen .
30 The best eye-witness reports came from European officials living in the two important towns of Batavia and Buitenzorg , where there were even some useful scientific recording instruments — one of them at the Batavia town gasworks — and from the officers on board the various vessels that were on passage through the Straits at the time of the eruption .
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