Example sentences of "of [pron] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His real advantage comes from being proficient in all of them at the same time , and this is a much rarer ability . |
| 3 | I said if yo if you think you know that you might be able to build a relationship I said then er you know , tell her so I said and do n't try and run the both of them at the same time I said |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | These gestures can be seen in many Persian miniatures , some of them at the British Museum . |
| 6 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | I might have made an angry reply about her own flaunting of herself at the male Ardakkean , but there was nothing to be gained by it . |
| 9 | She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time . |
| 10 | They think the world of him at the Northern . |
| 11 | With the bit of paper in one hand and the keys in the other , he held his arms straight out in front of him at the same height . |
| 12 | And in Edinburgh the appearance of It at the still-functioning Paperback Shop renewed the link with Haynes for people like Lloyd , who could regard themselves as the Americans ' ambassadors in the north . |
| 13 | Unbecoming as it was to their cred , the embarrassed band loaded themselves and gear into the vehicle and tried very hard indeed not to be seen getting out of it at the other end . |
| 14 | I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round . |
| 15 | ‘ But Oliver , ’ I said , trying to make some sense of the story , and also trying to make a bit of a joke of it at the same time , ‘ Is n't it traditional to give flowers to a girl when you arrive rather than after you 've left ? ’ |
| 16 | GROWING OLD is a terrible business for most of us at the best of times . |
| 17 | Dietary fibre is the substance which makes the waste matter from the food we eat pass through us and out of us at the desirable , speedy , natural rate . |