Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [adj] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dixie and I are alone at the south end of the balcony , breathing in the strong Thames air . |
| 2 | ‘ Heavens — twenty-five past two , and I 'm due at the hospital by half past . |
| 3 | ‘ My father , Dewi Morgan taught me shoemaking from the time I was a little girl , ’ she said quickly , almost resentfully , ‘ and I 'm better at the work than many men . ’ |
| 4 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 5 | I 've finally forgiven Jeff and I 'm delighted at the engagement . ’ |
| 6 | Now I 've lost all my contacts and I 'm unemployed at the moment , y'know . |
| 7 | He and I were present at the recent opening of its new school building , for which I had the pleasure of being the Minister responsible for making available the necessary resources . |
| 8 | ‘ It was a big game for us , ’ he said , ‘ And I was delighted at the way the youngsters acquitted themselves — not just in terms of their ability , but also in terms of their temperament . |
| 9 | On each occasion I felt that insufficient effort had been made by the surgical teams to decide on the capacity to give informed consent , and I was dismayed at the immediate assumption of incapacity because the patient had been sectioned . |
| 10 | and twice in the last nine months I 've been in the United States and I was amazed at the number of very large women |
| 11 | So anyway I got to and I was amazed at the opposition I got from the two or three staff shunters at . |
| 12 | She was , of course , unbaptised , and I was terrified at the thought of her burning in hell . |
| 13 | But you have a reception at the Saudi-Arabian ambassador 's at seven , a meeting with the US Under-Secretary of the Interior about the Little Big Inch Pipeline at eight ; Simon Scher is meeting with you at St-Cloud at nine , and you are due at the duchesse de Quinsac-Plessan 's reception at ten … ‘ |
| 14 | You do n't want to look silly and you 're excited at the prospect of the work , so in the heat of the moment you suggest an unrealistically low price . |
| 15 | He stepped further away from her and she was shocked at the sudden , inexplicable sense of loss she felt . |
| 16 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 17 | Guido nodded , and then glanced across at Ronni — and she was surprised at the look of open apology in his eyes . |
| 18 | They were all laughing , and she was amazed at the feeling of camaraderie among these men and particularly at Charlie 's obvious standing amongst them , for all four looked to be in their mid-forties . |
| 19 | Like other unions we suffer from the severe loss of members due to unemployment and we are appalled at the devastation of family life when the breadwinner 's been sha cast on the scrap heap and the behaviour of the government it throws whole communities into depravity without a chance of any hope for the future and their children . |
| 20 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 21 | We did three in six hours , and we were alright at the time . |
| 22 | I remember when we got out of playing the tiny places , and we were resident at The Marquee and packing it out . |
| 23 | Though they ca n't be certain , Mrs Friel 's daughters believe that was the treatment their mother received , and they 're alarmed at the damage it could have caused her and many others like her . |
| 24 | They 're in Nottingham tonight and they 're later at the Ritz at Lincoln but they 've just heard that they 're number one in the hit parade with their new video . |
| 25 | However Friends of the Earth say any import of Allerce is illegal and they 're horrified at the felling of the timber |
| 26 | Only a handful of people were in the pub and they were all at the other end . |
| 27 | Linfield manager Trevor Anderson is confident that any appeal by Tbilisi will fail — and he 's surprised at the leniency of the original sentence . |
| 28 | He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business . |
| 29 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 30 | I do n't know , I ca n't remember whether she applied for that , I know Harold his daughter went up to Southampton and he was horrified at the accommodation she was staying in , up there |