Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [be] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the same reason , I suggest that you avoid overseas package tours that require you to be at the airport in the early hours of the morning , or very late at night , when you may have difficulty travelling to the airport safely . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Jolande wants me to be at the birth , so it may mean missing the Masters . |
| 3 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 4 | At noon Sir Michael Adeane rang up and asked me to be at the Palace at 2 o'clock . |
| 5 | This seems to me to be at the root of the false notion of ‘ independence ’ being pursued by so many local élites throughout Europe and beyond . |
| 6 | She would cook them all a good breakfast and make it clear that she expected them to be at the table on time . |
| 7 | Stretched out where they had fallen , the last three members of the once invincible Hellhounds killer pack stared sightlessly after their executioner — a far more efficient and dangerous killer than Nature had ever equipped them to be at the height of their savage power . |
| 8 | Instead , he had a blue card telling him to be at the hospital for his first appointment with a National Health psychotherapist , a photograph of a fair-haired woman with green eyes , a driving licence , a library ticket , a yellowed old newspaper cutting about a forgotten murder , and a much fresher , more succinct bit of print torn from last Sunday 's newspaper . |
| 9 | Has the ship building industry cooperated , with Europe perhaps , to enable it to be at the forefront ? |
| 10 | It is in Britain 's interest for us to be at the heart of that Europe — where the Prime Minister said that he wanted us , but where he signally failed to put us at Maastricht . |