Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But still this expression tells you ‘ what happened ’ only if you are at home in the special conceptual world that belongs to these situations . |
| 2 | During the summer months I can usually get away with leaving my boat conveniently tied up to the pier , but only if I am at home to keep an eye on the weather : in Shetland , even in summer , a gale can blow up from the south east , causing a swell to set into the voe . |
| 3 | I do n't know how it went down because I was at home in bed asleep at night . |
| 4 | She is now reasonably well as long as she is at home , but car journeys and other people 's houses usually bring her symptoms on again . |
| 5 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 6 | Generally if you 're at home for the bins and all and I fucking |
| 7 | I 'm not because I was at work last week and they got |
| 8 | Of course I 'm not because you 're at work |
| 9 | I had a close look at the table last night — what really — ehh — scares me is Scum 's away form — in fact they are better away than at Old Scumford — even so they are just as good away as we are at HQ … yes they are vulnerable — but as they got points from the games vs us , Newcastle , Blacburn and Scousers recently i ca n't see what ( who ) is gon na crack them ? |
| 10 | Sleep did n't come easily when she was at home , or rather in the room at the hospital . |
| 11 | Until very recently , married women were unable to draw the allowance for the care of invalid relatives because it was assumed that they would do that anyway as they were at home all the time , despite the fact that two-thirds of married women work . |
| 12 | Would this be still while you were at school ? |
| 13 | But he 's been keeping the opticians in business — especially the ones that stock really old-fashioned frames — ever since we were at school together . |
| 14 | Ever since you were at school ? ’ |
| 15 | Course , this morning yesterday while he was at home , I said to him the bathroom radiator 's just not quite warm enough Pete can you adjust it ? |
| 16 | Once when he was at school camp , Shanti and I went to fetch him home at the end of the camp weekend . |
| 17 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |
| 18 | In his opening address to the special session Kaifu promised to submit legislation to prevent any recurrence of the securities scandals , which he described as " most deplorable not only because they … have seriously undermined general investor trust worldwide in the integrity of our stock markets , but also because they are at variance with our ideal of a fair society " . |
| 19 | So what if I am an even worse footballer now than I was at school . |
| 20 | But at the interview he said , " I could n't figure out if you were at school or not " , so I told him and he said , " And you 've managed to do your A levels ? " |
| 21 | Yeah but if you 'd like to come back though cos he 's at lunch at the moment . |
| 22 | I suspect they did not realise that words such as ‘ grammar ’ or ‘ progressive ’ reflect very different meanings according to context , or that the language of educational discussion had changed radically since they were at school . |
| 23 | And the marriage is likely to be far happier than if she is working flat out while she is at home and blaming her husband for giving her no help . |
| 24 | Back when we were at college . |
| 25 | Yes it is Now when he was at school |
| 26 | In fact Tod tends to be more upbeat with them here than he is at home ( at home , in slippers and dressing-gown , longsufferingly shuffling ) . |
| 27 | I can recall the phrase ‘ being left behind ’ ( whatever it meant ) being used far more frequently than it is at present . |
| 28 | Well if you 're at work |
| 29 | ( e ) There is , to put it negatively , no evidence that she did wish to persist in a refusal of a blood transfusion even if it was at risk to her life . |
| 30 | ‘ Those of us who selected the Royal Fusiliers because of historic links or family ties may feel that allowing criminals to join our ranks simply because we 're at war is hardly likely to advance the regiment 's reputation , ’ he said , looking pointedly in the direction of Tommy . |