Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue .
2 The wallpaper in the house is black from condensation and I am at the end of my tether . ’
3 We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing .
4 and I was at the bottom
5 ‘ Then you see her and accept it and you are at the end of the first stage .
6 And you 're at the mercy of the landlord putting the rent up Brenda .
7 And she was at the cemetery every day with
8 It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland .
9 This larger area is a circle and we are at the centre of it .
10 It 's a throw-in to David of Blackburn , down the right hand side , that one 's headed on by Stewart , the clearance from , is picked up by David who nipped in there ahead of and now here 's once more down the inside left channel , pushing it up towards the edge of the penalty area where holds it up well , they 're working well at the moment down that left hand side as gets it across , a snatched header comes in and it 's pushed behind by Chris for a corner kick , and we 're at the midway point of the second half , with Shrewsbury leading three two , Alan will describe it for you .
11 and they 're at the start line .
12 Another five minutes and they were at the edge of the meadow .
13 Barely pause and they were at the foot of a steep corner crack .
14 That leaves Michael Portillo : fine , and he 's at the Treasury already , but he 's only 39 .
15 And he 's at the top of your list ? ’
16 And it 's at the Moat House .
17 And it 's at the end it 's
18 In these days when party politics have entered so fully into local government , nominations to committees frequently come from the political groups of the council and it is at the group meetings of the council that a new member should stake his claim for membership of particular committees of his choice .
19 And it is at the moment because nobody 's buying any goods .
20 The company 's main business is in sheet fed offset and it is at the forefront of printing on recycled paper .
21 Comments on the Green Paper have been requested by 14 January 1994 and it is at the time of writing too soon to predict what the ultimate shape of the implementing legislation will be .
22 Only the north side of the scheme was carried out in 1825–6 as the Privy Council Offices and the Board of Trade , and it was at the Treasury 's instigation that Seward in 1833 produced a scheme to house various governmental offices in a block on the south side of the street , following Soane 's lines .
23 The two have users in common and it was at the request of some large accounts that the relationship was formed .
24 Hotspur asked negligently ; and it was at the girl 's wry face that he looked .
25 And it was at the wedding of her cousin that Laura had first met Owen 's older brother , Ross Wyndham .
26 So he was born de Lisle , and it was at the point that he was in military school that he added the Rouget , you know , like having a double barrelled name ,
27 And it was at the office … that she met the man who said …
28 Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions .
29 Annie Middlemiss , Dobinson House , West End , Wolsingham : There was to be a sale of furniture at the mart at Wolsingham and my mother and myself were at the viewing in the morning .
30 ‘ Well , it 's true that one is n't always sure that life can continue under its present auspices , but I am at the moment , ’ he said , ‘ and especially today .
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