Example sentences of "and [pers pn] be [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Mike and I were away at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd be much happier knowing you and I were n't at the beck and call of such a man . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah there was five women and dad was away and I was out at the fishing just for the night . |
| 4 | He sighed , ‘ Maria Luisa had spoken to Fernando and you were together at the Casa Pinar and I thought everything was hunky-dory — ’ |
| 5 | We have cousins in Provence and she is there at the moment . |
| 6 | The walk-in is easy and we were soon at the foot of the icefall . |
| 7 | Three weeks went by and we were back at the vet 's surgery . |
| 8 | and three on the bottom and they 're right at the top . |
| 9 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 10 | Constance was clutching her arm , and they were almost at the church . |
| 11 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 12 | Although Bob 's command of Serbo-Croat is non-existent and he is only at the early stages of learning Russian the Causevics ' second language — he has enlisted the help of a friend , native Yugoslav Maria Delahunty , to act as an interpreter . |
| 13 | Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were his welcoming party and he was immediately at the centre of the fastest set in town . |
| 14 | and it 's also at the level just like a round the corner and hold a conversation . |
| 15 | Last winter round here there was nothing more alarming than a little cat-ice in the margins , gone by midday , and it 's now at the stage where I think advice on constructing insulating entire pool covers may have been overtaken by the global weather pattern . |
| 16 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 17 | But the " theatricality " of the play works beneath the purely formal level : Lord Claverton has always acted a role and it is only at the end of his life that he allows his true human self to emerge , although |
| 18 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |
| 19 | And it was right at the beginning when the demon took over … |
| 20 | The three others rose to leave and it was only at the very last moment that he added , almost casually : ‘ What message were you supposed to phone to the American Consulate ? ’ |
| 21 | We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened . |
| 22 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |