Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 2 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 3 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |
| 4 | Four moves later he was at another semi-resting place . |
| 5 | Now we were at 2,000 feet , the grasslands and such trees as there had been were below us . |
| 6 | Tom Tom Tom knows what it 's like cos last time I was up there yesterday Tom was and Chris Turner was up there and we went past an heap and it and we said is that a lorry-load and Dennis said , well it was at this morning . |
| 7 | There you are at one end of the rope with a bell at the other — and when you pull you 're not sure what is going to happen . |
| 8 | Least they were at that time . |
| 9 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 10 | Indeed it was at this time that scientism really began to become important , not only in Britain but throughout western Europe , the USA , Russia and Japan . |
| 11 | I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school . |
| 12 | and that 's why I 'm at One House , Wade house . |
| 13 | He was constantly demanding rewrites , even on the set , so you never knew where you were at any time . |
| 14 | I was thinking about Conrie Fraser and wondering where she was at that moment . |
| 15 | ‘ I know why you 're at that school . |
| 16 | Indeed the settlement where we are at this moment , is to be expanded very considerably . |
| 17 | Yet it is at this point that it comes into sharpest conflict with the cultural and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes . |
| 18 | The weapon 's computer thus knows where it is at all times , without relying on any signals from outside . |
| 19 | So we moved the scheme to next year 's capital programme into this year 's capital programme , erm , very much a scheme on children 's services , which is also in these papers , where it was at that stage fairly clear that it would not commence during the current financial year . |
| 20 | Those of us who had been drawn towards Labour as a party of change now received a sharp reminder that whatever else it was at local level , it was at national level still essentially an electoral machine . |
| 21 | A talent scout heard him sing — actually it was at that performance at the Hall . |