Example sentences of "of [pron] at the [noun] " 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 Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror .
4 I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose …
5 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 . ’
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 He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped .
9 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 .
10 ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said .
11 Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment .
12 rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I .
13 Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court .
14 Their victory over Rangers extended their unbeaten run to 11 games and with only Blackburn and Norwich three points ahead of them at the top , their sights are being raised ever higher .
15 But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden .
16 ‘ There 's loads of them at the Standard , ’ said Cooper , persuasively , so persuasively in fact , that we ended up at 7.00 am outside Holborn Tube with a banner declaring Flirting for London , handing leaflets to men and flowers to women , so he could get a good photograph for his story .
17 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 .
18 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 . ’
19 He will learn of them at the end , when it is all over , and even then only indirectly .
20 Several men , all of them at the end closest above them , and peering .
21 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 .
22 He fell in alongside two of them at the end of the street .
23 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 .
24 I need all of , all of them at the moment .
25 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 .
26 There are of three of them at the moment , after the weekend , what are their names ? is the number to call .
27 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 .
28 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
29 ‘ There is no longer room for both of them at the club .
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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