Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] be at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 3 | And on November the twelfth that 's a week on Friday they 're at the Ritz at Lincoln in Consett . |
| 4 | On the other hand , on one of my visits I was at a meeting when I heard some commotion outside and asked what it was . |
| 5 | Then at work they are at the whim of the boss . |
| 6 | I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’ |
| 7 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 8 | In late October he wrote again to Rohde : " This evening I was at the Euterpe Society , which has started its winter concerts , and refreshed myself with the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde as well as the Overture to Die Meistersinger . |
| 9 | ‘ That is because these days you are at the top of the ladder and it is other men who are sent to places like this . ’ |
| 10 | Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee . |
| 11 | ‘ the defendant owed no duty of care to the infant plaintiff she being at the time of the collision en ventre sa mère , not an existing person and merely part of her mother . |
| 12 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 13 | Within 4 years they were at the height of their achievements . |
| 14 | For this session the Celebration room has to be the sacred place it is at the integrated session . |
| 15 | It 's at a lovely venue it 's at the Great Central Railway at Loughborough . |
| 16 | In Calcutta , Mike Gatting batted for six hours in his two innings , while in Madras he was at the crease for only 66 minutes and 21 runs . |
| 17 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 18 | ‘ Only the other day I was at the vicarage , seeing Mrs Ainger about my stall at the bazaar-I 'm doing the fancy work this year , you know — and there was pussy , bold as brass , if you please , walking into the lounge as if she owned it . ’ |
| 19 | They might be shocked if they realized their destructive influence on those they meet Last night I was at a social gathering . |
| 20 | On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation . |
| 21 | All Friday , Saturday and Sunday we were at the house , and he was shooting cocaine all the time — shooting it . ’ |
| 22 | I killed my cat with a fucking spade We are at the scene of the crime Mr what did you see ? |
| 23 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 24 | One day we were at the top of the highest hill on the island , and we were looking out to sea . |
| 25 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 26 | During the day he was at the power station and at weekends , reversing the normal peregrination , he was at his London flat , frequently staying there for Part of the week if he had a meeting in town . |
| 27 | One minute he was at the table and the next he was threading his way between the dancers , leaving Geoffrey asleep with his cheek resting on a bread roll , bits of tinsel glittering in his hair . |
| 28 | As Charles Wolf points out there had been mounting Congressional criticism of the Administration 's alleged neglect of Asia and although the strength of Republican feeling had been resisted in the matter of China it was at the cost of a critical concession in Southeast Asia generally — Vietnam in particular — which accorded , nevertheless , with the sentiments and announced global purposes of US policy : to resist communism , to encourage free peoples throughout the world , and to strengthen democratic nations against aggression . |
| 29 | There usually is a , a , a , vacant houses but at the minute it 's at a standstill . |
| 30 | the yarn on the front of the work is horizontal and on the back it is at an angle . |