Example sentences of "[adv] of [pron] at the " in BNC.

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1 She held her breath for a moment and then the tears and the breath burst out of her at the same time .
2 Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words .
3 The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place .
4 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 .
5 I thought we might be out of it at the 4th hole in the last round .
6 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 .
7 The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’
8 So nobody wins nobody loses anything and nobody really gets what they wanted out of it at the end anyway or not everything that they wanted .
9 Well I said I have got nothing out of it at the moment .
10 Were you out out of it at the time or what ?
11 There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky .
12 Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy .
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 As she turned the corner , about four feet ahead of her at the saloon end of the passage , Nathan was sitting in the well-padded swivel chair bolted to the deck in front of the chart table .
15 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 .
16 The cars that are always ahead of you at the lights .
17 ‘ The mugs who were ahead of us at the hotel , Fatso .
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