Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I am over at the big house within a couple of minutes , kilt on , best sporran and carrying the bagpipes , and prepared for anything . |
2 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
3 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
4 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
5 | These are the rhyolites , which are right at the other end of the spectrum from basalts ; that is to say they are acid , contain a lot of silica and have the same composition as granite . |
6 | In Thailand a traditional form of entertainment is proving invaluable in the nationwide effort to educate country people about AIDS , which is increasingly at an alarming rate in all areas of the country . |
7 | And there is no slum problem which is not at the same time a poverty problem . |
8 | Rare animals found included the Great Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis , another snail which is apparently at the northern limit of its range in Britain , and a freshwater limpet Acroloxus lacustris . |
9 | The invading motorway , the M62 , sliced and slashed its way across the peaceful countryside , separating the lovely old Quaker Farm from some of its pastureland , which is now at the other side of the flyover which almost marks the boundary between Sandholme and Gilberdyke . |
10 | This programme , which is still at the experimental stage and therefore subject to adjustment in the light of experience , is intended to supplement and not to replace the close personal supervision which graduate students are entitled to expect . |
11 | The aim of the directive on " civil liability for damage caused by waste " , which is still at an early stage of discussion , is to force banks to take greater interest in the environmentally damaging activities of their business customers . |
12 | Their solution was of course a key objective of the Powick project , which was still at an early operational stage in 1979 . |
13 | ‘ And they were there and nobody was there at the same time ! ’ says Derry . |
14 | You are now at the halfway mark of the first week of this programme . |
15 | This now brings you to the extraordinary position , 20 years on , in which you are essentially at the same table as your old adversary Edward Heath … |
16 | Anyway , I hope you 're still at the same address , and that someone may let us know where you are if you 're not . |
17 | I believe she 's rather at a loose end , but she said she could n't seem to fancy an exterminator . ’ |
18 | She 's right at the other end of the room and is deaf and blind when she has to be . " |
19 | She was there at the departmental conference and he included her in the general nod and smile as he entered the executive producer 's office , but his eyes were guarded , and not just on her account . |
20 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
21 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
22 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
23 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
24 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
25 | The observed pattern , that in all directions the redshift of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from us , can be explained ( if we are not at a special place in the Universe ) only by a uniform universal expansion . |
26 | But I honestly do think that we are probably at the very bottom of the list for help for women amongst the 12 EC countries — we are certainly regarded so in Europe ’ . |
27 | It 's nice and , nice and near , we need not be all the hours that we are sometimes at the other places need we ? |
28 | Five months into the project , we are now at a manageable level and tonight we arrange to open a further six fields over the next week . |
29 | ‘ We are certainly at an advanced stage of negotiations , ’ admitted Mr. Riley , who is Chief Mechanical Engineer with the ELR . |
30 | And we 're both at a loose end . |