Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [be] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know whether you are at home or in London , so I am sending copies of this letter to both places . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It would n't matter if you were at home and lunch was half an hour late . |
| 5 | ‘ If one of the children is ill it does n't matter because I 'm at home , anyway , ’ she says . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I noticed when I was at school the other day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Held through the night , he wrote the following morning : ‘ I am treated like I was at home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Would you celebrate if you were at home ? ’ he was asking with that same faraway look in his eyes . |
| 13 | if you can get them going while they 're at school |
| 14 | ‘ It 's partly related to my theory of human behaviour which I 've had since I was at Fettes in Edinburgh , ’ he said . |
| 15 | She also agreed to tell him each evening about the sort of day she had had while he was at work . |
| 16 | I can work while she 's at school , and be at home when she needs me . |
| 17 | But the rate of scientific progress is now so rapid that there are always new developments that have occurred since one was at school or university . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | No , sounds like he 's at home |
| 20 | Bulbs , er probably not cos I think I 'll have to do while you 're at school cos daddy tells me it 's gon na rain this afternoon , I 'll have to do that this morning , pity that . |
| 21 | District controller Ian Jackson stressed the new boat is not an RNLI rescue boat , although it will respond to distress calls while it was at sea . |
| 22 | Politics , he remembers , was ‘ just beginning when I was at Bristol . |
| 23 | I 've just got another bit of paper a note saying please note while you are at college you are asked to do four hours overtime and that 's not a contract , it 's just a letter . |
| 24 | ‘ What ages and ages it seems since we were at Pinehurst . |
| 25 | The Girls knew that their reputation for dancing as one was at stake , but because they were so well drilled and were accustomed to Finck 's ways , it worked brilliantly . |
| 26 | This urge is not something that appears when we are at school or later — it operates from birth , if not before . |
| 27 | I mean if obviously the child is reacting in some way or feels that they ca n't even relax when they 're at home , erm then someone 's overstepped the mark . |
| 28 | well you did n't try when you were at school , you told me yourself |
| 29 | For Martin 's goblin never let him rest unless he was at work fetching honey , or setting up more hives , or buying and selling , making himself richer and richer . |
| 30 | We could go while she 's at tap . |