Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I might also say , on open access which is something that I was at a meeting for yesterday in London . |
| 2 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 3 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 4 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 5 | And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest . |
| 6 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 7 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 8 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |
| 9 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 10 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 11 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 12 | That it was at the seaside made it seem all the worse . |
| 13 | Accounts differ as to when the unit insignia was first worn , but several of the ‘ Originals ’ maintain that it was at the end of the training period and before the first operation . |
| 14 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 15 | that he was at a meeting where Margaret Thatcher was speaking , and he erm made a comment about what the people in his constituency perceived about something , and she got up and said ‘ now that 's totally wrong ’ . |
| 16 | Edward , an infrequent attender , complained that he was at a disadvantage , having been to a public school ; the others , who had been to state schools had unfair practice at this sort of thing . |
| 17 | She could see that he was at a loss for words — which was reason enough for her to be pleased with her impetuous decision . |
| 18 | At this Drew became disturbed and emotional , and said that , if the three people that he had previously named — the Lindos and Norman Stubbs , the stage manager — could not testify that he was at the theatre at the time of the murder , he knew of no-one else who could , but he certainly did not commit any murder , nor was he seen in Cross Street with blood on his face . |
| 19 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 20 | It was n't Brian 's fault , he could n't really help the fact that he did n't fit in , that he looked , well … strange , or that he was at the back of the queue when the brains were handed out . |
| 21 | Mr Scott 's removal from office was demanded by one shareholder who said that he was at the helm when the company 's finances went in to the red . |
| 22 | Anyone who knew Niki knew , in spite of his denials , that he was at the end of his rope . |