Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
Previous page Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
31 | Well he is at javelin , and what was the other thing he was throwing , the discus ? |
32 | But mostly he was at home in the old church you know . |
33 | so fortunately I was at home before he did so I thought we 'll have something quick then , just had a roll , you know , and I thought well I , i it 's not worth worrying about it and sort of |
34 | Then I thought that maybe I was at fault , that I had borne a grudge too long . |
35 | Then I am at home when the kids get in from school . |
36 | ‘ I may not be as much with my family as I should be , but at least I am at home , ’ he reasons . |
37 | One minute you 're in Egypt , the next minute you 're in Rome , then you 're at sea on a ship , then back in Egypt again — ’ |
38 | See they used to get the , they used t what they call they used to report for work at say quarter past seven in the morning and then they be at work at half past seven , but now of course they do n't now , they , I think they start about eight o'clock now . |
39 | And if they fail to find all your information and recommend something and then you say , Well er invalid son or parents and I need that money then he 's at fault and you can then er take them to court for failing to give you best advice . |
40 | Yeah , but you see then he 's at fault I mean like yesterday he come in he said he 's got to drop off at Milton Keynes and he said I , I , he were n't due to be dropped until what half past ten ? |
41 | Accordingly , each week when I am at home , I take the car out and do a certain circuit , stopping at various vantage points where I can scan the surrounding area with binoculars or telescope , noting and memorising everything I see . |
42 | I hate that , I really do , thank God I 'm at boarding school cos I hate , the worst bit is like when they get , I remember when I was at day school and them coming home from the parents ' evening and I was |
43 | It 's three quarters of an hour when I was at mum 's . |
44 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
45 | No , I think I find it easiest , I remember when I was at school and you ca n't remember when you were last at college on time ! |
46 | Well I can remember whe when I was at school , physics and maths were clever subjects , they were male subjects . |
47 | Cos I know when I was at school we actually got our sex education in fourth year , and it was by a visiting lecturer , it was this wee old man about fifty , he said basically , this is a male body , this is a female body , nothing about sexuality , orgasms anything ! |
48 | Oh that was there for years , donkey 's years when , I can remember when I was at school , going to school and it was still there quite a number of years after I left school . |
49 | It really brought back memories when I was at school , I really enjoyed it . |
50 | they remind me of when I was at school . |
51 | It was when I was at school . |
52 | No that was in , that was when I was at home , in Essex . |
53 | I remember when I was at university in Padua we went to see the basilica there . |
54 | ‘ I remember when I was at college men would phone me and I would n't have any idea who they were . |
55 | See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ? |
56 | That 's when I 'm at work or at home — sometimes I use it at home , not often . |
57 | Yes , that 's where I was at college . |
58 | So , I got to the point where I was at ease in that community or as at ease as you can be , then spent another three weeks there . |
59 | This was what she had achieved , and indeed in the 1950s when she was at work it was an enviable position for a woman . |
60 | John , her brother aged 6 years , was mother 's favourite and she had become concerned that her husband was undermining her authority with Jenny during the day when she was at home with her . |