Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For a few minutes I was at peace with myself . ’ |
| 2 | Never mind Tuesday I was at placement the whole time and we sort of |
| 3 | The last term I was at school , I was eighteen , and therefore not entitled to a half-price season ticket . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | This is potentially a glorious voice — one senses that instinctively — but to my ears it is at present just a voice , an instrument . |
| 6 | For more than two months he was at peace with himself and the world . |
| 7 | A girl I was at school with , her mother runs it . |
| 8 | It 's a good job we 're at church |
| 9 | For several days he was at death 's door , and a grave had been kept ready in case the worst happened . |
| 10 | Patricia McQuigg , the mother of one of his friends , says : ‘ Luke practically lived at my house during the last few years he was at school . |
| 11 | One day she was at Serenity and she met a boy from the Holy Sepulchre of the Expanded Neurosphere , and he told her she did n't have to be an imaginary princess any more . |
| 12 | Unlike their predecessors they were at home in French , now establishing itself as the pre-eminent diplomatic language , and cultivated contacts with foreigners . |
| 13 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 14 | Later on I produced a medical certificate , given me by the doctor , stating that my father was ill and that Saturdays and Sundays were the only days of the week I was at home and could help my mother look after him . |
| 15 | The first week I was at college straight out to test . |
| 16 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | It was a night for the homeless to lie down and die ; and for luckier people to sit close to their fires and thank God they were at home . |
| 19 | He went on to give an account of his education at Eton School and then at King 's College , Cambridge ‘ of which society I am at present a Fellow and from which University I have derived my medical Honors ’ . |
| 20 | Nowadays , especially in Spain , Basque is being defiantly flaunted as an alternative to the national language ; but in France it is at risk , spoken at home by Basque families but discouraged in schools , as a lesser , marginal language likely to hold its speakers back economically . |
| 21 | Well when it comes in from the cow it 's at blood heat , and e you put it through your strainer and then you drain it and er you leave it be and it coagulates , goes consistency of yoghurt , slightly thicker than yoghurt , and after that stood a certain time you apply heat then you warm it up and you stir it , you break up the curd , and the whey gradually rises to the top and your curds settles to the bottom . |
| 22 | Of course he was at ease ; he could joke with his servants and turn away , dismissing them with a happy , ‘ Good to see you all , and very good to be home . ’ |
| 23 | His first book , containing two stories , ‘ Odette D'Antrevernes ’ and ‘ A Study in Temperament ’ , was published in 1905 ; and in the following summer he was at work on his first novel The Artificial Princess ( published posthumously in 1934 ) : in it he devised the techniques of elliptical narrative and baroque construction , and the manner , at once satirical and lyric , concentrated and fragmentary , that were to characterize his mature work . |
| 24 | ‘ You were never committed here the way I am at Sleet . ’ |
| 25 | On the other hand , she conceded , someone had to do the kind of menial tasks she was at present condemned to — but why was it always women who did them ? |
| 26 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |
| 27 | Gloucester 's hockey team scored their first national league win last week … 4-0 on sunday they 're at home to Cambridge City … |
| 28 | The way it is at present , we can not , we can not get more loot to put into the new project but the bank manager , i.e. the Chancellor of the Exchequer , reminded us a few months ago that the other way of funding our projects he encouraged us to look at our current assets and if possible liquidate some of that asset and fund it , or or use it to fund our new schemes and this Mr Mayor is what we should be doing . |
| 29 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |
| 30 | Every Sunday of his childhood he was at chapel hearing the Bible in Welsh and singing in that intricate melodious tongue . |