Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be [adv] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial Disablement Benefit is payable whether or not you are back at work . |
| 2 | Clearly he was not at fault . |
| 3 | Now You 're Back at Work |
| 4 | Now he 's back at home and feeling much better . |
| 5 | All too often he was away at sea on naval duties . |
| 6 | Thus today I am equally at home with both metric systems , and can switch from ergs to joules , or dynes to newtons with ease . |
| 7 | Today she 's back at school . |
| 8 | On that lovely September morn the Prime Minister entoned , calling us to battle " and consequently we are now at war with Germany " . |
| 9 | After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er |
| 10 | I obeyed your instructions and called on Dr Heatherton , but unfortunately he was not at home , and his wife was only just so ; I met her and her daughter going out . |
| 11 | I survey it from my bedroom window and everywhere it is quite at home . |
| 12 | In the photograph , the sun is coming into the attic on an early summer 's late afternoon , a time when I am seldom at work there . |
| 13 | One of my first jobs in the morning , when I was not at school , was to sweep out the customers ' part of the shop . |
| 14 | This is why I am not at home here . |
| 15 | In the daytime , when she was not at work , it was difficult to sleep . |
| 16 | I ca n't understand that either , they ai n't getting no relief off of their poll tax and yet they 're , yet she 's not at work and he 's on the dole , and they still having to pay full whack . |
| 17 | I think perhaps I must try never to go away unless with you — And yet I know when you are out at supper with others , that you are all the time thinking of me , as I am of you ( and last evening in the hansom ! |
| 18 | Officially she is not at school any more . |
| 19 | Could you tell us why you are not at work ? ’ |
| 20 | They had no need to empty their minds of conventional images in order to build a purer system of thought , but instead they were perfectly at home with the conventional . |
| 21 | Oxygen depletion will affect Orfe before other pond fish species , therefore on hot still nights when they are most at risk , ensure there is good water movement in the pond ( via a waterfall , venturi or fountain ) . |
| 22 | If she has a break of , in this illustration , eight years out of employment to rear to children , and works part-time for most of the years when they are still at school , the lifetime earning profile is given by the lower line . |
| 23 | They wear muzzles at all times when they are together at home , and we put them in separate rooms whenever they are left on their own . |
| 24 | They ask the youngsters why they 're not at school . |
| 25 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |
| 26 | He used to listen to his music all the time when he was not at college , so the opportunity to do something like this was like a homage to Hendrix , a thank you for letting him discover music . ’ |
| 27 | When Charles arrived from Eton , where he was then at school , he had primed his friends beforehand to give false names . |
| 28 | And that 's why he 's not at home . |
| 29 | It returns to the sea to lay its eggs , but otherwise it is entirely at home on land . |