Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 4 | ‘ As it is Friday afternoon I am at your disposal until Sunday night . |
| 5 | During that last sentence I was at Styal again and then at Askham Grange . |
| 6 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 7 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |
| 8 | I think that the skills and interest we develop in our young graduates these days are very much wider ranging and they 're reflected into the great variety of jobs into which you go , and erm frequently in talking to young people about geography I 'm at pains to say well we 're really rather a useless subject , but we do give insights into a lot of sorts of problems and erm these lead in many directions . |
| 9 | Hurt by ‘ the ungenerous treatment which I met with from that very sex whose sufferings I was at so much pains to relieve ’ , he was glad to leave Aberdeen when recalled to active duty in the Royal Navy . |
| 10 | The last term I was at school , I was eighteen , and therefore not entitled to a half-price season ticket . |
| 11 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 12 | Is it , is your parking permit saying what college you 're at ? |
| 13 | … I think the better you are at public relations the better you can do your job . |
| 14 | On one side they are at full height . |
| 15 | Turkey , incidentally , just for pig-iron and incorrigible spite , look like ten times the side they were at Lansdowne , just when we need them to be sullen , depressed , and cruising for a bruising . |
| 16 | It 's for the people who are n't happy with the weight they 're at , or if it 's unhealthy — if it 's endangering your health and you have to do something about it ; if you 've been told by your doctor to lose weight . |
| 17 | And on November the twelfth that 's a week on Friday they 're at the Ritz at Lincoln in Consett . |
| 18 | They 're celebrating their centenary this year … not much of a party so far … the club are short of money and struggling near the bottom of the table … they have n't won a game in two months … on Saturday they were at home to Yeovil … |
| 19 | In practice they are at daggers drawn as the furore over Tom Clarke 's pronouncements on the subject this week amply illustrates . |
| 20 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |
| 21 | By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building . |
| 22 | Er cos it 's not actually Dunfermline , the golf club it 's at er . |
| 23 | Opponents of membership , such as the Prime Minister , argue that whatever the right level of entry it is at least necessary to reduce inflation to the European average of roughly 3-4 per cent . |
| 24 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 25 | For more than two months he was at peace with himself and the world . |
| 26 | A girl I was at school with , her mother runs it . |
| 27 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 28 | Personally I do n't care at what stage of sexual intercourse you 're at , if a women says I want to stop now , then you stop now and that 's it . |
| 29 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 30 | Never mind , you have a definition — you are a ‘ bad child ’ , which is infinitely preferable to not knowing what sort of child you are at all . |