Example sentences of "of [pron] at " 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 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 3 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 4 | In contrast with their younger counterparts , some of whom at least could hope realistically for the possibility of promotion , the older field men have little ambition , though they retain some sense of mission . |
| 5 | A group not given βblockers included the remaining 2688 patients , none of whom at any time received a β blocker of any sort , including atenolol . |
| 6 | Eighty four people died here on April the nineteenth , of whom at least twenty were young children . |
| 7 | Although I welcome the Minister 's comments about increased funding , there are currently 96,000 enrolled nurses , of whom at least 35,000 seek conversion , with only 2,430 places available . |
| 8 | I think we 're in a nest of greedy , self-centred , corrupt old men , of whom at least one would stick at nothing to preserve his privileges . |
| 9 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 10 | But , as I predicted last Sunday , it frightened the life out of everyone at Smith Square . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I merely wanted to tell you that you 've scared the hell out of everyone at Saracen — except me . |
| 13 | Can I thank you for your support over the season and on behalf of everyone at Elland Road wish you a Merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year . |
| 14 | There is a photo of me at fifteen : round face , shoulder-length mousey-brown hair , grey eyes . |
| 15 | But I felt dreadful , like a bloated lump with one leg and no hair , so there are n't any photos of me at that time at all . |
| 16 | The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If you 've thought of me at all since we last met I 'd be very surprised . ’ |
| 19 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 20 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Proud Mr Fong , 46 , admitted : ‘ He 's way ahead of me at maths . ’ |
| 23 | The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat . |
| 24 | Just before my mother 's death , playing around with the photographs on the bedroom mantelpiece , my niece discovered an old photograph underneath one of me at three . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , he made like he wanted no part of me at all . |
| 26 | Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment . |
| 27 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 28 | She 's not frightened of me at all and I like that very much . |
| 29 | Rose used the book to sell vines too , ‘ my self also with so plentiful a Stock of Sets and Plants of all those Sorts which I chiefly recommend , that those who have a desire to Store their Grounds , may receive them of me at very reasonable Rates ’ . |
| 30 | Perhaps they were afraid of me at first . |