Example sentences of "[pron] [be] at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone rings and they do n't find me in , it 's not because I am at a wild party or something , it 's probably because I 'm shopping or walking my dog . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management . |
| 3 | I 've changed my address Dr , I 'm at a wee pensioner 's house . |
| 4 | If I find I 'm at a dead end , then I can ask for outside help . |
| 5 | I 'm at a little place called Ellenthorpe . |
| 6 | I 'm at the long ledge below the final wall of the Nose , where the Direct , Superdirect , and other routes not mentioned by Ron James converge . |
| 7 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 8 | I was at a temporal disadvantage , for some things to which he made reference were unknown to me . |
| 9 | Accordingly I was at a front row table for the show when the lights went down . |
| 10 | And a couple of weeks ago I was at a chemical engineering company where the managing director told me that they were now using accountants for their safety experiments instead of rats . |
| 11 | They might be shocked if they realized their destructive influence on those they meet Last night I was at a social gathering . |
| 12 | So , through no fault of my own , I was at a loose end quite a bit . |
| 13 | Not knowing what was going to happen to me or how rapidly the disease would progress , I was at a loose end . |
| 14 | Well I 'm not stupid , I mean I was n't stu , when I was at the junior schools in the country I was n't stupid |
| 15 | I was at the antenatal clinic . |
| 16 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 17 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 18 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 19 | I was at the recent launch of Opportunity 2000 , an excellent initiative by Business in the Community . |
| 20 | I was at the Royal Academy this year , and the portraits there were almost universally vile . |
| 21 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 22 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |
| 23 | ‘ I was at the National Theatre doing a play about a flying picket called Line ‘ Em by Nigel Williams . |
| 24 | I was at the top end one , and all the draught come through the door , paralysed me . |
| 25 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 26 | I remember when I was at the Open University , the people who were engaged in implementing Open University programmes in the States , who were the deans in charge of the Open University experiments , were all women and all ‘ marginal ’ to the mainline male career people . |
| 27 | I was at the Old Bailey , spent about two weeks there — I had the London detective with me . |
| 28 | I was at the local convent school from twelve to eighteen years old and I was considered clever but ‘ strange ’ . |
| 29 | The problem is to provide students with high-quality stories which are well-constructed and entertaining — and which are at the right level linguistically for their ability . |
| 30 | Negotiations with the De Vere hotel group , which were at an advanced stage , have recently broken down and precipitated the receivership . |