Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 2 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 3 | Head of the school Mike McKechnie later visited Shanghai to seal a friendship agreement and discuss the course content , a scaled down but otherwise authentic version of that taught at the institute . |
| 4 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 5 | Dickens also makes good use of symbolism and the most obvious example of this occurs at the end of the first chapter with the convict walking towards the gibbet and the beacon which are symbols of death and life . |
| 6 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 7 | However , both of these look at the state of the goods upon delivery . |
| 8 | Perhaps for many of the fans the best moment of all came at the end of the fifth Test , when Tony Greig went out and ‘ grovelled ’ before them . |
| 9 | She thought bitterly of the spots she of ten got at the comers of her mouth or across her forehead . |
| 10 | The robes were of black or crimson velvet — over body armour — and all of those seated at the desks wore identical long masks . |
| 11 | Some 51.2% of those questioned at the end of 1991 said that they planned to buy more hardware but only 40.3% actually did . |
| 12 | They have found that the output of researchers using Manchester University 's radio telescopes at Jodrell Bank compares unfavourably with that of those working at the Mullard Radioastronomy Laboratory at Cambridge University . |
| 13 | On the debit side Charles was legendary for his rooting out of heretics , and the area was frequently lit up by the glow of those perishing at the stake . |
| 14 | The evangelical movement within the Church of England , from the royal proclamation of 1787 issued at the instigation of William Wilberforce , aimed at stirring up the vigilant suppression of " vice " and attacked pastimes even when they were not breaking the sabbath . |
| 15 | It was a scene of intense bustle at the mills , with scores of children busily at work , and from the Bonsor Mill the roar of the machinery , at times , penetrated down to the village itself . |