Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Aycliffe had better post an advertisement to that effect , then , before I am burned at the stake ! ’ |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I am devastated at the verdict . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm stood at the tee throwing the clubs up in the air and whooping away and he just turns to me and says , ‘ Do n't get too excited , Jacky . |
| 4 | I 'm suprised at the lack of SCUM bashing on the server . |
| 5 | And yet I find that I 'm disturbed at the thought of what the world would look like in the wake of an amateur home porn video-led fashion revolution . |
| 6 | At four twenty I 'm bid at the back on the left at four twenty . |
| 7 | Well I 'm lost at the moment . |
| 8 | I 'm tempted at the moment I 'm telling you . |
| 9 | I 'm greeted at the gate to Brad Pitt 's ageing West Hollywood bungalow by his melancholic red coonhound Deacon . |
| 10 | Now I 'm minded at the moment to say , look , why should we pay a hundred pounds and pay all the , all the , all the refurbishment of that site , because they wo n't be able to develop it , there 's no , there 's no access to that land . |
| 11 | Last week I was gutted at the sale of Batts , but last night I was so happy that the scum failed . |
| 12 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 13 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 14 | Since I was pipped at the post for the Periodical Publishers ' Association Columnist of the Year award by Maureen Lipman , star of stage and commercial , I thought I 'd better look up her column in She magazine to see how I might bring my stuff up to state-of-the-art standard . |
| 15 | I was drunk at the time , if you must know . |
| 16 | But for all that he plays no part in the ancestry of my colleague , on whose behalf I was alerted at the mention of his name . |
| 17 | Finally I was enrolled at the Royal College of Physicians . |
| 18 | I was met at the door by the commander of the bodyguard , who introduced me to the domestic staff — the cooks , the maids , the rest of the bodyguard and the gardener . |
| 19 | I was dumbfounded at the sight of his shiny blue-black hair , his long-lashed blue eyes and his brown face . |
| 20 | The notice of appeal sets out a number of grounds , but before dealing with the appeal on the merits , I was asked at the outset to rule on what the nature of an appeal from the justices under the Children Act 1989 is , whether it is an appeal in which fresh evidence could be called , that is a full rehearing in the sense that the Crown Court could hear appeals from the juvenile court under the old law . |
| 21 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 22 | All the circumstances of the last charge brought against me point to the probability that I was arrested at the urgent instance of the Home Office . |
| 23 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 24 | I was told at the time that this system had been adopted because it was impossible to fit a mechanical servo as fitted to the Series III without major surgery , |
| 25 | I was told at the Bar that in section 25 application cases hearsay evidence was regarded in some family proceedings courts as not admissible . |
| 26 | The crimps were of course very active and I was told at the time that they would be paid as much as two pounds for every man whom they recruited . |
| 27 | The Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ had himself been taught at the school in the eighteen-nineties — my father had been one of his contemporaries . |
| 28 | Well run tournaments use individual record cards which are scrutinised at the beginning of each bout . |
| 29 | the communism , the Kuomintang which are united at the time , and obviously the , the Kuomintang putting forward the idea of a restoration |
| 30 | Regular tests , usually written tests , which are given at the end of a section of the syllabus , were also termed coursework " . |