Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's going to be a wonderful evening , ’ said Camille , ‘ with her drooling over the waiter , and me nearly dying of fright at the slightest sound , and you sitting there thinking . ’ |
| 2 | Although Liz 's body is disposing of alcohol at the rate of about one unit a hour , her last drink pushed her over the legal limit for driving of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood . |
| 3 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
| 4 | Still to come : was Shakespeare in truth the seventeenth Earl of Oxford , and a Van Gogh made of money at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 5 | This generated CO2 which migrated up-dip into the Stinkdolomit and caused leaching of dolomites at the foot of the mud wedge ( Fig. 20 ) . |
| 6 | Uniform provision is replaced by targeting of services at the most needy . |
| 7 | Lionel said , ‘ Anything to do with rags to riches is sure of a welcome if brightly done — as happens of course at the Carlton … |
| 8 | How could she remain here , see him again , and not die of shame at the memory ? |
| 9 | Bobby Lavender came of age at the time the police had just crushed the last Black Panthers political group and new non-political gangs were beginning . |
| 10 | You 're made of tensions at the moment , programmed for them . |
| 11 | Again , Manville felt a slight sense of marvel at the processes of his own brain , his devious but quite unconscious way of running ahead of his own thoughts and frequently alighting on off-beat answers . |
| 12 | Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper . |
| 13 | The boy is also accused of burglary at the woman 's home in Nantwich on Monday . |
| 14 | She thought of Charles at the University of Suffolk , giving a lecture , perhaps , on Romantic landscape poetry , illustrated with slides . |
| 15 | I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage . |
| 16 | The cruel vengeance which Basil exacted from the thousands of prisoners taken at Kleidon — he blinded all save one in every hundred , and compelled the sighted ones to lead their blind comrades back to Prilep , where Samuilo died of shock at the piteous sight — earned him the name of Bulgaroctonos ( Slayer of the Bulgars ) . |
| 17 | She died of cancer at the age of 48 , when her suppressed anger and resentment emerged as multiple tumours . |
| 18 | She died of bronchitis at the age of seventy-seven . |
| 19 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
| 20 | After the twenty-seventh day , Rachaela dreamed of Ruth at the house of the Scarabae . |
| 21 | You spoke of personnel at the beginning ; the number of staff on the City Council in the last ten years has doubled . |
| 22 | Erm if just take just think of singers at the moment . |
| 23 | ‘ Most people think of competition at the output end , libraries , recommended reading lists , journal funds , ’ David Martin says . |
| 24 | Ronni got in , feeling a welcome dart of annoyance at the way he had issued that curt command . |
| 25 | Soon the summer revels of BB at the then uncrowded , unchic little port of St Tropez , with a succession of young actors and guitar players ( Trintignant soon withdrew to the peace of Army service ) , were spied on and peeped at by the photographers and published in countless magazines and newspapers . |
| 26 | JF mentioned slow rate of working of BG-BASE at the end of the network . |
| 27 | Normally , the commission had to dispose of land at the best price it could obtain , but there was one important exception . |
| 28 | Under the joint venture between the British Agrochemicals Association and the UK Agricultural Supply Trade Association , farmers will be able to dispose of chemicals at the rate of £20 for disposal of the first 5kg and £2.90 for each kilogram thereafter . |