Example sentences of "of [adj] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She thought bitterly of the spots she of ten got at the comers of her mouth or across her forehead . |
6 | 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 . |