Example sentences of "[verb] of [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lionel said , ‘ Anything to do with rags to riches is sure of a welcome if brightly done — as happens of course at the Carlton … |
| 5 | How could she remain here , see him again , and not die of shame at the memory ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The boy is also accused of burglary at the woman 's home in Nantwich on Monday . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | She died of cancer at the age of 48 , when her suppressed anger and resentment emerged as multiple tumours . |
| 13 | She died of bronchitis at the age of seventy-seven . |
| 14 | ‘ Most people think of competition at the output end , libraries , recommended reading lists , journal funds , ’ David Martin says . |
| 15 | Ronni got in , feeling a welcome dart of annoyance at the way he had issued that curt command . |
| 16 | Normally , the commission had to dispose of land at the best price it could obtain , but there was one important exception . |