Example sentences of "of [pron] at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 2 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 3 | A group not given βblockers included the remaining 2688 patients , none of whom at any time received a β blocker of any sort , including atenolol . |
| 4 | The sail had been a hindrance , making sport of me at each whim of the wind , so I lowered it . |
| 5 | But I felt dreadful , like a bloated lump with one leg and no hair , so there are n't any photos of me at that time at all . |
| 6 | But the dreariness , the frightful struggle of life , the indifference of people , the troublesomeness of children — he did not want to be reminded of them at that moment . |
| 7 | The six sections of that car were allocated to twelve assorted actors and crew , most of them at that point reading , talking or fast asleep . |
| 8 | She would be almost glad when they were gone — some of them at any rate . |
| 9 | We did get them better a lot of them at any rate . |
| 10 | The research is based on the assumption that most of the contemporary ideas on this crucial topic date back to the 19th century , and that some of them at any rate are by now dated . |
| 11 | If you talk to people in the street the majority of people who have young children are certainly saying we need day care , we need opportunities for ourselves erm and are quite prepared , some of them at any rate , to go and say that to their local councillors and to write to their M Ps . |
| 12 | Only 12% think that they are public property and therefore the press should be able to take photographs of them at any time . |
| 13 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 14 | The inclusion of them at this point in the text , defines the whole process of the experience of love , " insuperable " " inseparable " and " singular " as the activity of the Holy Spirit in man . |
| 15 | She 'd had a cocktail of them at some point that morning . ’ |
| 16 | She had eight brothers and had had to fight or argue with every one of them at some time or another . |
| 17 | Here , a charge under Schedule E can arise where a manager has acquired shares in respect of which a " chargeable event " occurs while he is the beneficial owner of them and the manager is a director or employee of Newco or Target or an associated company of either of them at some time during the period of seven years ending with the date on which the chargeable event occurs . |
| 18 | The receiver 's got to dispose of them at some stage . |
| 19 | As he says of himself at that juncture in his career , his quitting in Monaco was ‘ the climax to a situation which had existed all year , stemming … basically from a lack of interest and enthusiasm ’ . |
| 20 | The material originated from a widely distributed soil organism and was active against various bacteria , some of which at that time still awaited effective therapy . |
| 21 | It also incorporated " modest savings " anticipated from the reform of the CAP ( the exact terms of which at that stage had still to be agreed ) , but the Financial Times of May 22 warned that " this picture could easily change " . |
| 22 | ‘ Remember , the range on this thing is quite long enough for me to dispose of you at any moment should you try to desert me or plot against me . ’ |
| 23 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 24 | To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation . |
| 25 | Ronni felt proud of him at that moment . |
| 26 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |
| 27 | Everything of mine at that stage was still packed , but I had set aside a separate box for tea and coffee things so tea was easy to arrange . |
| 28 | Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate … |
| 29 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 30 | But I do n't think we should make too much of it at this stage . |