Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 2 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 3 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 4 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 5 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 6 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 7 | Had she accepted , he might have been back at The priory now , with her as his bride . |
| 8 | I should have been back at the office . |
| 9 | For those of us old enough to have been around at the time of the birth of rock ‘ n ’ roll , the idea of an advanced course in the music which made both us and our parents jump ( but in opposite directions ) may be hard to accommodate . |
| 10 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
| 11 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 12 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 13 | If International had been around at the time of the Vikings , there 's little doubt whose paint would have been used to keep those marauding longships in prime condition . |
| 14 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 15 | Yer told me yerself 'e put the finger on the goin 's on at the Crown . |
| 16 | If you ask medical staff how often they have seen someone die , rather than if they have been around at the time , surprisingly few will say they witnessed the actual event . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's been up at the School ! |