Example sentences of "she be [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 2 | In fact , she 's over at the Yard now chattin' up some foreman or other she 's got eatin' out of her hand . |
| 3 | She 's always at the doctor 's with her leg . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid she 's out at the moment , ’ he said . |
| 5 | My mother 's amazing — she 's so reserved , and very English , yet the minute the curtain goes up , she 's down at the front . |
| 6 | Another canteen worker in the same village told me she does a shift from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. , returns home to work for her family , then she 's back at the pit from 7.30 p.m. until 10.45 p.m . |
| 7 | She 's in at the hostel at least an hour before she starts . |
| 8 | Practitioners seem to accept that worthy cases of mercy killing invariably have this outcome , but this informal approach provides the defendant with no legal basis for a defence — he or she is truly at the mercy of the psychiatrists , the prosecutor , and the judge . |
| 9 | She also wants to exercise to improve muscle tone during this period ; she can then see what shape she is in at the end of the year before she decides whether or not she really does need to lose those extra 4 lb ( 1.8 kg ) . |
| 10 | We have cousins in Provence and she is there at the moment . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't see Mrs Brent 's car yet — I suppose she is still at the Lady Queen Bees ' tea , and Mr Brent must be still at his curling club . ’ |
| 12 | She was up at the window looking out . |
| 13 | He smiled at her again later when she was up at the bar ordering a second round for her and Natasha , as he and his friends were standing further along the bar . |
| 14 | Today she was up at the crack of dawn , 4.30 , to make breakfast for her man friend . |
| 15 | It seemed she was up at the Jubilee Tower practising the tango with Nigel and they would be down shortly with the papers . |
| 16 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 17 | She was right at the end when , without warning , she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure . |
| 18 | Carole was well ; what was more to the point she was here at the conference , ‘ a queen bee ’ of the local Tories — Chairman of the Forest of Arden Women 's Association . |
| 19 | It was a coincidence she was here at the moment the child turned on to the street . |
| 20 | ‘ No , but she says she was round at the local . |
| 21 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 22 | She was away at the time |
| 23 | Perhaps her greatest defiance , the extravagant music centre she had ordered from the junk mail , arrived when she was out at the restaurant . |
| 24 | She was down at the scene of the picket . |
| 25 | She was back at the hotel by 7.45 . |
| 26 | She was back at the curtains again . |
| 27 | She was back at the desk when he stood up , stretched elaborately , and said : ‘ Guess I 'll get myself a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's time she was back at the hospital . ’ |
| 29 | But she kept on running , as panic overtook her , and did n't stop until she was back at the lift . |
| 30 | In her mind , she was back at the flat in rue Roland , a jumble of bloodstained sheets confronting her . |