Example sentences of "of [pers pn] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror .
2 I see myself putting it down on the table in front of me at the Assessment Group and the papers slipping loose …
3 Far down in you you felt a new stirring , a new nakedness emerging … the sudden quiver of me at the springing of my seed , then the slow-subsiding thrust . ’
4 It broke my fall but the strain of this was too much ; it ripped out of the wall and landed on top of me at the foot of the stairs .
5 The thrill of coming out of Oxford Circus tube and seeing a pile of me at the news-stand was pretty hard to beat .
6 He knew of me at the time I was working with Betsy Cook , who used to work with Marc , and so that helped .
7 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 .
8 ‘ Kerry was in front of me at the start and I went past her on the second mile , ’ she said .
9 Here is a description of a canvas which is in front of me at the moment .
10 rights of erm fire so many people in front of me at the moment I .
11 Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court .
12 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 .
13 But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden .
14 ‘ There 's loads of them at the Standard , ’ said Cooper , persuasively , so persuasively in fact , that we ended up at 7.00 am outside Holborn Tube with a banner declaring Flirting for London , handing leaflets to men and flowers to women , so he could get a good photograph for his story .
15 He has eaten plenty of them at the Brighton guest house where the Commonwealth of Independent States team , paid for by race sponsors ADT , have stayed since arriving .
16 The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’
17 He will learn of them at the end , when it is all over , and even then only indirectly .
18 Several men , all of them at the end closest above them , and peering .
19 Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them .
20 He fell in alongside two of them at the end of the street .
21 Samuel Pipkin tried to keep excitement from his voice ; in truth he was as shocked as any of them at the reality of what in his mind he had longed for .
22 I need all of , all of them at the moment .
23 So briefly , it was started in the er , late sixties early seventies , companies with over a thousand employees which had their member states er , at least nine hundred of them at the moment that particular covering at least thirteen point six million people .
24 There are of three of them at the moment , after the weekend , what are their names ? is the number to call .
25 Boys who did not , remained in the elementary-school system ( in , as will appear , most cases ) to linger on like dispossessed giants until the system and my grandfather let go of them at the age of fourteen .
26 and we had half a dozen of them at the box office and if anyone , I think we still sent them out if anyone wanted them
27 ‘ There is no longer room for both of them at the club .
28 The best eye-witness reports came from European officials living in the two important towns of Batavia and Buitenzorg , where there were even some useful scientific recording instruments — one of them at the Batavia town gasworks — and from the officers on board the various vessels that were on passage through the Straits at the time of the eruption .
29 at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’
30 Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows .
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