Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them are directed at girl readers , the assumption seeming to be either that boys have no adolescent problems or that they read only ‘ action ’ books . |
| 2 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I am occupied at present . ’ |
| 3 | However , I am occupied at present . ’ |
| 4 | Afterwards ( another former Lancaster student ) invited me home to tea , and in the evening , and I were entertained at home by |
| 5 | Kay was the name that I was called at home , my middle name , one of my father 's names , and I knew that Kay , the boy in The Snow Queen , was me , who had a lump of ice in her heart . |
| 6 | ‘ Of all the things I was taught at school , this sticks in my mind more that anything , ’ said Christine Cooper when she wrote to tell us of her reaction to an article in MKM. that was last spring when we published a newsletter from Christine Morey telling of her adventures in Romania . |
| 7 | ‘ I was presented at Court in the summer of 1882 , ’ she said quietly . |
| 8 | If I 'd have thought that Mrs Carrow would take it on herself to go down to the beach with little Celia that morning when one of my younger brothers came for me because my mum was ill , well I 'd never have gone , however much I was needed at home . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I was needed at home to do the work . ’ |
| 10 | I was woken at midnight by the cries of hundreds of Lilliputians outside my house . |
| 11 | When I was left at school I was savage at not being let go home ; and when I went home , my mother did nothing but find fault with my schoolboy manners . |
| 12 | I was telephoned at home as soon as it happened and when I arrived everyone was here , police , fire brigade , the gas board and the bomb squad . |
| 13 | We 're trying to do things which on many occasions we 're actually doing things which are done at university with them , in a simplified form , of course , but just to give them this perspective , this view of physics . |
| 14 | It 's just that we do rather more sophisticated versions sometimes of very similar things which are done at school , but they might be done more precisely , simply in a rather more sophisticated way . |
| 15 | Qualifying corporate bonds , while offering a deferral of the charge to tax on capital gains , have certain disadvantages which are explained at para 23.2.1.3 below . |
| 16 | At the Avenida Arriaga side of the gardens there is a small pond with ducks and fountains which are illuminated at Christmas time . |
| 17 | Or sow drills of loose-leaved cutting lettuce , which are harvested at 2–3in high . |
| 18 | For example , we noticed consistency for those four coxI introns , from fungi , algae and liverwort which are inserted at amino acid position 239 ( referring to the anumeration in P.wickerhamii , see fig. 2 ) . |
| 19 | These limits have given rise to thorny debate in at least two areas which serve as a reminder that it is not only nonhuman animals which are put at risk : |
| 20 | Turns out IBM Corp is using Raytheon Co 's UK software development and services division , Data Logic Ltd , as the prime development partner on its AIX CICS/6000 and Encina on AIX/6000 products which were announced at Unix Expo last week ( UX No 404 ) , and are due next June and this December respectively . |
| 21 | While asleep , Stages 1 , 2 and REM were reduced at the expense of Stages 3 and 4 , which were maintained at baseline levels . |
| 22 | His interests were not confined to works on paper , but also included tapestries , silver , glass , bronzes and paintings , some of which were offered at auction by Sotheby 's in 1987 . |
| 23 | Macleod used to say that budgets which were praised at Easter would be condemned by the autumn . |
| 24 | Bar coded identity numbers are printed by the registry and stuck on that part of the preprinted enrolment form which is detached at enrolment each year . |
| 25 | Everything you need is available here from the tennis court which is floodlit at night so that you need n't play in the heat of the day , to the restaurants — the Timanfaya restaurant which serves snacks and full meals at discounted prices and the Indian restaurant . |
| 26 | ‘ Only one other Scottish constituency features in the top 50 and that is Aberdeen North which is placed at number 37 . |
| 27 | Unlike sex identity , which is fixed at conception and can not be changed , gender identity can change and a woman may have a masculine identity and vice versa . |
| 28 | In brief , it 's a light-proof , sound-insulated shell , enclosing around 10 inches of a saline solution , which is kept at skin temperature . |
| 29 | In this instrument differences of pitch are obtained , not by the use of valves , as in the horn and trumpet , but by varying the length of the vibrating column of air by means of a movable slide , the position of which is altered at will by the player . |
| 30 | In his reply Miliband raised objections to this ‘ structural super-determinism ’ , and argued implicitly — though he did not use the expression — for a dialectic of individual ( or social actor ) and structure , a dialectic which is explored at length in Sartre 's Critique of Dialectical Reason . |