Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I was at the party but I did n't see anything suspicious . ’ |
| 2 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 3 | ‘ How did you know I was at the Holiday Inn ? ’ |
| 4 | There never was any threat from them to Barbara — they did n't know she was at the flat because she was in her room when they burst in . |
| 5 | Like you say you 're at the mercy . |
| 6 | He says you 're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you . |
| 7 | He asked instead why Hunter-Blair had not said he was at the Post on the day of the murder and why he had troubled to ask Linley to keep his presence secret . |
| 8 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 9 | For a minute she did n't know where she was and , as she realised she was at the farm , fear stayed firmly with her . |
| 10 | I mean you were at the meeting that 's why I 'm referring to you . |
| 11 | She could see she was at the point where the police might be going to do some hard questioning . |
| 12 | I should have thought it was at the bottom |
| 13 | I can not say how touched I am at the warmth of the reception you have arranged for me . ’ |
| 14 | I am writing to convey how shocked and saddened I am at the news . |
| 15 | I know I 'm at the station , cos that 's obvious , it 's just I ca n't exactly remember how I got here . |
| 16 | I hear you were at the Empire the other night ? |
| 17 | Patrick was wishing he was at the wheel . |
| 18 | Ok roger I was at the Fav and I guess you were but there were two guys fitting your description ( I never knew that sheepskins were so popular ! ) |
| 19 | ‘ And you , Roger , if your remarks in the Chapter House mean anything , believe I am at the centre of this darkened ring ? ’ |
| 20 | It 's obviously best that he continues to believe you 're at the bottom of the Danube , or halfway to the Black Sea by now . ’ |
| 21 | I believe you were at the theatre ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I believe we are at the stage now where the fears and uncertainty in the community are such that no one can any longer pass by on the other side , and there is something which everybody can do to alleviate the problem . ’ |
| 23 | Suppose they 're at the bottom of the sea now . |
| 24 | I mean they are at the moment and if I have a meeting well after about an hour it seems as though you 've |
| 25 | I thought I was at the office . ’ |
| 26 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 27 | Theoretically , every person was subject to the whim of the sultan , which in practice meant they were at the mercy of his capricious subordinates . |
| 28 | The next time I saw her was at the crematorium . |
| 29 | It took her a moment or two to realise they were at the hotel . |
| 30 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |