Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pers pn] be at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is generally supposed that it was at Thurgarton . |
| 2 | Critics of the power exercised by parties may perhaps be reminded that they are at liberty to join the party , of their choice , to be active in it and to use there such influence as they can acquire . |
| 3 | my Lord is , I would respect that they are at liberty to apply generally |
| 4 | I do not know whether you are at home or in London , so I am sending copies of this letter to both places . |
| 5 | Well I can mind us making a wreath at school when Miriam died , that was the only only body I ever remember dying when I was at school . |
| 6 | to do it , and it starts a lot earlier , it starts when you 're at school and the fact that that women are told that you can do , like home economics an , and sewing and all that , and then they 're not encouraged to go into engineering courses . |
| 7 | I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley . |
| 8 | They had arrived back at her hotel , however , before Fabia realised that they were at cross purposes about why she should want to return to her hotel so early . |
| 9 | The authors argue that newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy decreases emotional distress because it avoids delays in diagnosing the disease , and without newborn screening two or more boys could be born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy before parents realised that they were at risk of having an affected child . |
| 10 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 11 | If you rule this second topic out of order , and the examiner wished it to be included , the examiner will at least see that you have had the point present in your mind , and will probably-also be brought to see that he was at fault in his wording of the question . |
| 12 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 13 | ‘ If one of the children is ill it does n't matter because I 'm at home , anyway , ’ she says . |
| 14 | The soft beauty of their symmetrical curves , and the sinuous outlines , accentuated as they were at morning and evening by the glancing rays of the sun , provided an artistry one could not readily forget ; and I shall long remember the delicate rosy flush , reflected for a moment from the smooth sand surfaces , as the radiance of the sunset dwindled and died like a funeral pyre . ’ |
| 15 | My wife and I both dive when I am at home and we have a number of friends who run dive charter operations in the Keys . |
| 16 | I noticed when I was at school the other day . |
| 17 | Well as he says when he 's at home he likes to get down the pub with the boys for a pint because of course it is dry Up There . |
| 18 | Held through the night , he wrote the following morning : ‘ I am treated like I was at home . |
| 19 | While , on the face of it , his case might rest on its being detrimental to his career to suggest that he is at death 's door , it seems likely that much of the evidence , especially for the defence , will be called to no other purpose than to establish whether , to put it mor euphemistically than it will be put in court , he has been putting himself about . |
| 20 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 21 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 22 | ‘ Would you celebrate if you were at home ? ’ he was asking with that same faraway look in his eyes . |
| 23 | if you can get them going while they 're at school |
| 24 | ‘ It 's partly related to my theory of human behaviour which I 've had since I was at Fettes in Edinburgh , ’ he said . |
| 25 | She also agreed to tell him each evening about the sort of day she had had while he was at work . |
| 26 | I can work while she 's at school , and be at home when she needs me . |
| 27 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |
| 29 | No application was made for bail after the court heard that he was at risk to himself and others due to the nature of the crime . |
| 30 | No , sounds like he 's at home |