Example sentences of "he be at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 2 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 3 | And because he is at the same time King , he is also responsible for the executive as well as the judicial aspect . |
| 4 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 5 | He was at the boat-house door , taking a key from his pocket . |
| 6 | The study door was open and there he was at the far end of the laboratory . |
| 7 | ‘ He was at the far end of the table ; he had no opportunity . ’ |
| 8 | He was at the front door when , on impulse , he turned back and said to Meg Dennison : ‘ I think you mentioned that you walked from the Old Rectory , Mrs Dennison . |
| 9 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 10 | You could put your hand up and ask questions , and you were n't all up at a level on him , he was at the same level as you , talking , and he knew all our abilities so he explained things more clearly to us . |
| 11 | He was at the same time very simple and very noble . |
| 12 | A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability . |
| 13 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 14 | Within an hour he was at the northern boundary of the Waste . |
| 15 | He was at the Royal College of Art in the mid-1920s — a bumper year which included Moore and Hepworth . |