Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam was going to a tutorial college , where the staff tended to keep a close eye on their pupils , being moderately well paid to do so , while Camille was still at a local comprehensive where the teachers no longer cared much about anything . |
| 2 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 3 | BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing . |
| 4 | BOGUS aristocrat Rosemary Aberdour was back at the Old Bailey yesterday in danger of having her sentence for stealing £2.7 million from a hospital charity increased . |
| 5 | This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological . |
| 6 | Elaborate preparations had been made for a meeting between the two kings at Gloucester : King Malcolm was there at the appointed time , but Rufus refused to see him , and the two parted , in the Chronicler 's words ‘ in great enmity ’ . |
| 7 | Peter was still at the front door , staring at him . |
| 8 | But Dexter Tiranti was there at the naïve and idealistic beginning — and is still here in the careworn ( but still idealistic ) present . |
| 9 | When Christopher Steffen , reportedly a slash and burn merchant when it comes to cutting costs and staff , quit Eastman Kodak Co on Wednesday after just seven weeks in the job of chief financial officer of Eastman Kodak Co , saying that the team was agreed on the objectives , but had irreconcilable differences on how to get from here to there , IBM Corp shares jumped for joy in anticipation that he was about to be named finance chief — but the joy subsided and so did the share price , off 87.5 cents at $49 when nothing happened yesterday ; word out of IBM is that there is an appointment already to be announced , but unless the fact that Steffen is now at a loose end causes a last-minute re-think , he is not the man that IBM has in mind . |
| 10 | Prince William was still at the crawling stage when they were invited to visit Australia by the government . |
| 11 | Oh well Morse was on at the same time . |