Example sentences of "would [adv] be at the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | True Confessions in 1981 was an attempt at getting my stage nerve back after a disastrous premature version of Blood and Ice , my first try at a real play , went on in the studio of the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry ( ‘ I 'd rather be at the dentist — Birmingham Evening News ’ ) . |
2 | I 'd rather be at the dentist , like they think I am , than with them . |
3 | Er you see when I was , this would just be at the start of the First World War , oh damn I have n't put a switch in have I ? |
4 | Some men would already be at the boats , others coming down the steep path from the village . |
5 | I would usually be at the foot of the platform stairs as Billy went on at the start . |
6 | Even if there were agreement , much of the disputed territory would still be at the mercy of both Serb and Croat irregulars , acting outside the control of their Government , and those forces would continue to be a source of fighting and unrest unless they were disarmed . |
7 | Her mother had been informed and would probably be at the station . |
8 | ‘ If we 're going to be ruthless , it would probably be at the end of next summer [ 1994 ] , ’ says one minister , mulling over the possibility that Mr Major 's taint of failure proves harder to expunge and that , in best Tory blood-sport tradition , he may have to be cleanly knifed . |
9 | The yellow steps rose in steep flights but now it was clear that when she reached the top she would also be at the bottom , starting out . |
10 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
11 | ‘ & yet I would fain be at the Beginning of my Willows growing . |