Example sentences of "of [pron] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The third was inhabited by small people , half a dozen of them at various times ; of whom Pat Billon , 2-foot 10-inch ( 85-cm ) tall , became the best known and most publicized .
2 We will discuss some of them at various points in this book .
3 The meeting of the Central Committee lasted two long days , during which eighty-eight delegates spoke , some of them at great length .
4 Two of them at New Drove are downstairs and one is an upstairs .
5 but I 'd never put any of them at Right Back again , Or buy somebody .
6 CVCP had maintained that ‘ an expansion driven wholly by the recruitment of extra students , many of them at marginal cost , could threaten research ’ , but says that the research funds mean that some universities can ‘ increase their income without recourse to student recruitment alone ’ .
7 Darling 's mark had been made on his final Test , however , with three catches in England 's first innings , two of them at short leg quite startling .
8 No doubt the army has lavish stocks of both ; but no capacity has been retained in Britain to make more of them at short notice .
9 Motorists who drive too close to the car in front of them at high speed are being targeted by Cheshire police .
10 It also makes the point that our sexuality is squeezed arbitrarily into narrow forms , forcing us to suppress many elements of ourselves at great Shobana Jeyasingh is impressive both as a performer .
11 Since then , in the last seven years , we 've built up a market of 50,000 tonnes of it at good prices , under the name ‘ Andricite ’ — from anhydride and JCI . ’
12 They had of course heard of the ‘ Vallar plan ’ , and had joined in discussions of it at various stages .
13 A new word was recently coined to describe bodies such as English heritage : quangaroos — hopping about in a random fashion , getting in everyone 's way and generally making a nuisance of themselves at good rates of public pay .
14 But gradually , over the years , they had defected , as weak as the teenagers they so relentlessly criticized : they 'd let the old ways lapse in order to slump like dummies in front of appalling chat shows and glimpses of the Sugar Plum Fairy and obsequious shots of the Royal Family and its corgis and babies , to goggle at old movies and new dance routines and to sit back sucking sweeties while sneering at pop stars and newscasters making fools of themselves at televised parties .
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16 Below are a few tips from all of us at RUNNING Magazine to help you as the hours count down .
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