Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum . |
| 2 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 3 | I mean some of them at the going in at dinner time and have a couple , three pints it do n't hit them does it ? |
| 4 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | and we had half a dozen of them at the box office and if anyone , I think we still sent them out if anyone wanted them |
| 7 | There are of three of them at the moment , after the weekend , what are their names ? is the number to call . |
| 8 | Without her being conscious of it at the time , her struggle for independence rotated around the figure of Hansel . |
| 9 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 10 | Several men , all of them at the end closest above them , and peering . |
| 11 | His real advantage comes from being proficient in all of them at the same time , and this is a much rarer ability . |
| 12 | I need all of , all of them at the moment . |
| 13 | We are all of us at the mercy of our adrenaline , and there is a very fine dividing line between being justifiably keyed up and ready to do your best and being rendered helpless by panic . |
| 14 | It always is er a moment to reflect , to look forward to renew acquaintances , to recharge the batteries , to get new ideas and that 's quite right and this public meeting marks the eve of a particularly important year for all of us at the Save The Children Fund . |
| 15 | I 'd like to present on behalf of Colonel centre , a plaque from all of us at the Three-Ninetieth at D M Museum . |
| 16 | They did not all give up there and then , but presumably went on to take the test again and eventually to pass — many of them at the second attempt . |
| 17 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 18 | Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 22 | I shall throw my bouquet to one of you at the wedding and who knows , there might be another wedding in the not too distant future for somebody . |
| 23 | ‘ I wanted to have one of us at the house . ’ |
| 24 | A gutsy but vulnerable underdog who swiped the prince and was still one of us at the end of it . |
| 25 | Samuel Pipkin tried to keep excitement from his voice ; in truth he was as shocked as any of them at the reality of what in his mind he had longed for . |
| 26 | Were I to meet any of you at the golf club or the Mayor 's banquet I am sure we could talk as equals over a glass of sherry and a snipe sandwich . |
| 27 | He fell in alongside two of them at the end of the street . |
| 28 | So briefly , it was started in the er , late sixties early seventies , companies with over a thousand employees which had their member states er , at least nine hundred of them at the moment that particular covering at least thirteen point six million people . |
| 29 | One wheel would n't retract , although he was n't aware of it at the time , and the next thing he knew he was near the ground . |
| 30 | Whereas I would not be so aware of it at the time . |