Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] be [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way , ’ added the WPC , ‘ I thought you were terrific at the conference yesterday . |
| 2 | The audience were hypnotised by the piece , each member , even those cynical about ‘ so-called ‘ ’ modern' ’ music' , knew they were present at a historic event . |
| 3 | Her husband was in close attendance at the moment but Jenny knew he was due at the meeting . |
| 4 | One of Oggie 's sons , Toby , or not Toby ( well , I thought it was funny at the time … never mind … ) is very disobedient . |
| 5 | And the other one thought he was good at the buckeye coupling . |
| 6 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 7 | The mother in yesterday 's case , Audrey Hamilton , said she was pleased at the outcome but knew that it may take the country 's highest civil court , the House of Lords , to resolve the issue finally . |
| 8 | Hilary Armstrong , Labour 's education spokesman and MP for North-West Durham , said she was delighted at the news . |
| 9 | Hilary Armstrong , Labour 's education spokesman and MP for North-West Durham , said she was delighted at the news in a report from director of education Keith Mitchell . |
| 10 | But Mary Vincent , a director of Funeral Services ( Petersfield ) , said she was appalled at the idea of television advertising . |
| 11 | Independent monitors also said they are shocked at the abuse against Panic . |
| 12 | But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims . |
| 13 | A company spokesman said they were delighted at the order . |
| 14 | Up Front 's producer Christine Ruth said they were disappointed at the reaction from Mersey Television but that the item would go ahead regardless . |
| 15 | A quarter of his adult male informants and nearly two thirds of married females said they were virgin at the time of marriage . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the two promised divisions , which , had they been available at the right moment , would almost certainly have presented Verdun to the Germans , were still firmly held at Metz , two day 's march away . |
| 17 | Had he been asleep at the time ? |
| 18 | Had he been present at the gathering in the public bar of the Queen Anne pub near the Rotherhithe Tunnel he would have been worried even more . |
| 19 | Simply used as a marketing term , to designate a fashionable commodity , it might also have appealed to publishers , had it been available at the time , as a packaging for the wave of fiction that followed in the tracks of Eco and Calvino in the early and mid-1980s , and for which no better epithet could be found than ‘ new ’ or ‘ young ’ ( despite a number of its representatives being somewhat less than youthful ) . |
| 20 | Speaking at a London conference , Tom Garvey , deputy director-general of the environment directorate , said he was disappointed at the lack of improvement in EC water quality in the past 20 years . |
| 21 | The Strathclyde Police spokesman , Supt Angus Kennedy , said he was disappointed at the comments attributed to spokesmen for other Scottish forces . |
| 22 | Sunbury-based Ron Jantzen , project manager for Corebyte development within BPX 's Technology Provision team , said he was delighted at the success of the first commercial outing of the system . |
| 23 | Alan Milburn , Labour 's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Darlington , who pushed the case for a bus service , said he was delighted at the replacement service . |
| 24 | No-one was available from the Wales CBI for comment but Meirion Lewis , Welsh spokesman for the Institute of Directors , said he was surprised at the findings of the study , but could not comment further until he had seen it . |
| 25 | Mr Dixon , who is also Labour 's Deputy Chief Whip , said he was surprised at the speed with which Mr Fallon 's complaint had been resolved . |
| 26 | The former Lithuanian nationalist leader Vytautas Landsbergis , who led the country to independence , said he was surprised at the ‘ success ’ of Mr Lozoraitis . |
| 27 | Huyton councillor Fred Curran said he was appalled at the cuts in the library book fund . |
| 28 | General manager Michael Prendergast said he was amazed at the response to the job vacancies . |
| 29 | Two years after the death of his daughter Paula in the crash , Andrew Barnes said he was outraged at the appeal . |