Example sentences of "[be] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while you 're at it with the bin get yourself a tissue as well , to wipe your nose . |
| 2 | Er I saw how they used to do it in the after they 'd finished work , used to be at it till till nine or ten that night . |
| 3 | U maybe he 'd be at it till about two o'clock in the morning . |
| 4 | ‘ If you think someone can work at his best at half past two in the morning after being at it since eight the day before you know nothing about human beings . |
| 5 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 6 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 7 | You were at it for years before the others about millions being made from speculation . |
| 8 | You know and to talk about many other , while they were at it with this questionnaire , they tackled many other subjects as well you know . |
| 9 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
| 10 | They were at it in the house , then in Felstead 's car on the way to the Club , all the time he was away from the bar . |
| 11 | She 's been at him for years . |
| 12 | I can get no sense into him nor out of him , though I 've been at him without relenting for days . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I have ; but when he confronts Richard he will be told that he could be taken to court ; he 's been at me for years . |
| 14 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 15 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 16 | We had been at it for three months now . |
| 17 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
| 18 | Anyway , the Wild Wood is seething with them , and in its endless darkness the beasties multiply ; they 've no enemies to control them , and they 've been at it for centuries ! |
| 19 | She 's probably been at it for years . ’ |
| 20 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 21 | And you need n't have any feeling of compunction about him , for he 's been at it for years on the side , and you know it . |
| 22 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 23 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 24 | She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up . |
| 25 | We 've been at it since six . ’ |
| 26 | I lose count of the lengths ; she 's at it for almost an hour , with her mind as empty as she can make it . |
| 27 | I was taken by the drama of it — one mistake , and somebody 's at you with a meat cleaver . |
| 28 | He got the fright of his life , for the Harris 's was at them like a bullet , and he was in the way ! |
| 29 | He was at it for quite a while . |
| 30 | I cleaned the whole apartment when I was pregnant — Jesus , I was at it from morning till night , you could 've eaten your breakfast off of the john . ’ |