Example sentences of "[pron] [be] at [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hesitate to write such a critical letter , but frankly I am at a loss to see how your new design can in any way be seen as an improvement . |
| 2 | But I am at a loss to resolve whether to take away the things he has given me or no . |
| 3 | Her performances were legendary , and I am at a loss to describe them now . |
| 4 | I am at a loss to explain this contradiction , as Gubby and I both accepted and talked about our next-door-neighbour relationship in later life . |
| 5 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 6 | I am at a loss to understand why , except for commercial reasons , the rush to publish was necessary . |
| 7 | Now 6 months later I am at The Lighthouse going on with the Lord . |
| 8 | I wonder if I am at the right do and half-expect two boxers to make an appearance . |
| 9 | And with Silas listening to both sides of the conversation it was impossible to explain the situation thoroughly , therefore she said , ‘ Daddy — it 's Lucy — I 'm at a place called Wilder 's Wilderness — you reach it by turning off the Taupo road . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm at the moment chairing a university working party on sexual harassment erm and what this working party erm intends to do is to try to survey experience gathered from the operation of codes and the appointment of people in college with a special responsibility for this sort of thing over the past few years , to see what we can learn from experience , so I 'd want to reserve judgement at the moment on what this committee might recommend is the best way forwards . |
| 11 | I 'm at the moment negotiating with a , a previous sponsor an S K Bearings Europe Limited who have a plant at Peterlee who are very interested in looking at erm supporting our educational provision . |
| 12 | I was at a loss to explain how my little story came about , as was a BR employee I asked , but another friend put his finger on what is almost certainly the reason . |
| 13 | I was at a loss to know what you were feeling . |
| 14 | At this time I was at a loss to understand how it managed to hover for so long in the same place . |
| 15 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 16 | When I was at the garage getting the petrol I give them , signed the cheque and they put the cheque through the cheque machine printing it out and that and er they 've got a free offer at the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ You remember me — I was at the town meeting last night . |
| 18 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |
| 19 | Johnny Rogan himself is at a loss to explain what he has done to provoke the wrath of the former Smith , while Morrissey says that the book contains certain inaccuracies about his Mancunian past . |
| 20 | Thus , in September , 1976 , a fire aboard HMS Glasgow , which was at the time under-going repairs in the Swan Hunter shipyard , resulted in the death of eight workers . |
| 21 | who are at the moment living in laybys and car parks , without water , without electricity and , in some cases , without waste disposal . |
| 22 | If Shilton is actually approved as a gipsy site , the people who will be going in there are the people who are at the moment living on the laybys and on the green lanes in the surrounding countryside . |
| 23 | There are several methods you may find helpful when you feel you are losing control or when you are at a loss to understand your child 's persistent aggression . |
| 24 | Many of you are at the moment taking part in discussion groups about ‘ Our Decade of Evangelisation ’ . |
| 25 | I 'm sure someone like Graeme Souness at Liverpool feels like I do when our teams lose , but expectations change when you 're at the top compared to the bottom . |
| 26 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 27 | ‘ You were at the Council meeting the night the King died ? ’ |
| 28 | Ten-thirty to three she 's at The World Turned Inside Out , daring the clientele to muck up her clean floor . |
| 29 | And them erm when everybody 's been caught by the person who 's at the person sat saying things like hot bananas hot milk and then when they say hot chocolate the you 've got to run back . |
| 30 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |