Example sentences of "of [pron] at the [noun sg] " 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 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 3 | I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose … |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat . |
| 7 | He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment . |
| 11 | rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | He will learn of them at the end , when it is all over , and even then only indirectly . |
| 17 | Several men , all of them at the end closest above them , and peering . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He fell in alongside two of them at the end of the street . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I need all of , all of them at the moment . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | There are of three of them at the moment , after the weekend , what are their names ? is the number to call . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | ‘ There is no longer room for both of them at the club . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 30 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |