Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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
5 I was at the antenatal clinic .
6 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 .
7 But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door .
8 A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo .
9 I was at the recent launch of Opportunity 2000 , an excellent initiative by Business in the Community .
10 I was at the Royal Academy this year , and the portraits there were almost universally vile .
11 I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay .
12 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 .
13 I was at the National Theatre doing a play about a flying picket called Line ‘ Em by Nigel Williams .
14 I was at the top end one , and all the draught come through the door , paralysed me .
15 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 I was at the Old Bailey , spent about two weeks there — I had the London detective with me .
18 I was at the local convent school from twelve to eighteen years old and I was considered clever but ‘ strange ’ .
19 You are at the very centre of operations , Mr Woodbrain . ’
20 Here , you are at the very heart of this beautiful city , staying in not so much a conventional hotel , as a comfortable home from home where your welcoming hosts are Signor and Signora Farnetani .
21 It must be incredibly frustrating to have the weight of climbing opinion against you if you 're at the front end of the game and you want to climb a new line without considerable risk of topping yourself unless you place bolts .
22 Yeah , you 're at the right end !
23 Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end
24 If you 're at the other end , you 're actually producing something , bear in mind your opening sentence , your opening paragraph , your headline , your title , must actually hook people in .
25 Well see you 're at the wrong colour .
26 You 're at the wrong end of the snake , you 're okay .
27 you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ?
28 So you , you be at the main entrance for at the secretary 's office , right , for half past eleven , right ?
29 they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up .
30 This week she is at the Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen , near Oswestry , where she is undergoing an operation on her arm .
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