Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] at a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I might also say , on open access which is something that I was at a meeting for yesterday in London . |
| 2 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A useful test is to imagine that you are at a party and someone asks you what you are writing about : your answer will have to be short , coherent and sufficiently interesting to hold the attention of a listener who does not have to listen to you . |
| 5 | ‘ We are informed that you were at a lecture , on the thirteenth of last month . ’ |
| 6 | That concentrated evil , that supreme almost supernatural cruelty , teaches us that we are at a parting of the ways , man 's salvation or man 's destruction . |
| 7 | We have to confess that we are at a stage of understanding where any answer must be to some extent tentative . |
| 8 | In a sense , we all understand perfectly well what experiences are ; it is when we are challenged to explain this understanding that we are at a loss how to put it into words . |
| 9 | Although it is at a disadvantage to the very deep water berths at Tilbury , Hull and Southampton , which can berth vessels of 25–30,000 tonnes , it still handles similar tonnages ! |
| 10 | So it 's excellent here , but we know that it 's at a variable , and I think the problem that you were probably facing is how do you secure a a better rate than that . |
| 11 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 12 | that he was at a meeting where Margaret Thatcher was speaking , and he erm made a comment about what the people in his constituency perceived about something , and she got up and said ‘ now that 's totally wrong ’ . |
| 13 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 14 | She could see that he was at a loss for words — which was reason enough for her to be pleased with her impetuous decision . |
| 15 | I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss . |
| 16 | Her performances were legendary , and I am at a loss to describe them now . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 19 | He and I were at a lobby at the House of Commons yesterday , in er , celebration of the mobility allowance , which campaigned very successfully , and we , in the Community Transport field , have very close working relationships and communication . |
| 20 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 21 | I felt as if I was at a milestone now , on the threshold of something . |
| 22 | It was not until I was at a conference at which Jean Darnall was speaking that I saw the need to ask others to pray for me . |
| 23 | People have talked a bit about their children and er and , and how beautiful they are , supposing you were a fairy god mother and you were at a christening and you had a wand and you could endow one gift , would it be beauty ? , is beauty the most important gift ? , button one for yes and button two for no and I 'd love to go round the world and ask this question , but out of one hundred Scottish women seven of you say yes , but ninety three of you think there is a more important gift than beauty and what that might be we shall talk about another time , but for all thank you now , thank you for watching , good bye |
| 24 | She was wearing high-heeled shoes — which is very unusual for a First Spiritualist — and she was smirking at people as if she was at a cocktail party rather than morning service . |
| 25 | If she was at a rave , how come we have n't had anything from the patrol cars about it ? ’ |
| 26 | If you are eating meat , trim off all visible fat before cooking — and before eating , if you are at a restaurant . |
| 27 | If you 're at a loss with what to do with your hair and make-up on your wedding day , why not pay a visit to the 10th Afro Hair and Beauty Exhibition at The Business Design Centre in London ? |
| 28 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 29 | It was just little homies who thought , because it 's Normski , and they 're at a rock club , it 's cool to throw things and boo . ’ |
| 30 | It was n't the ‘ gentle , angelic Allen of earlier readings in London ’ , wrote McGrath , and ‘ some of the audience responded as if they were at a bear baiting ’ . |