Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 2 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 3 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 4 | But er I do n't think you are at all dyslexic are you . |
| 5 | ‘ Famous research on American longshoremen , who worked 14 hours a day loading ships , and who smoked and drank as well as sweating their guts out , showed they were at low risk from cardiac problems and that severe exercise can protect against heart disease . |
| 6 | I know we were at one point . |
| 7 | I feel I am at last in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |
| 8 | ‘ I never felt I was at any risk and in terms of being brave I never even considered it . ’ |
| 9 | For the rest of that day , Charlotte felt she was at one remove from reality , viewing events through an invisible screen equipped to filter out the extremes of sensation . |
| 10 | I bet she was at that price . |
| 11 | Just because he knew about her it did not mean he was at all reliable . |
| 12 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 13 | Oh I do n't think he is at this rate na , Jonathan ! |
| 14 | I do n't think he was at all well known abroad but in Austria he was famous for his wit . |
| 15 | Do you think it 's at all possible that anybody who has this number , like presumably your agent has it or friends have it , is it at all possible anyone would have given it out to somebody ? |
| 16 | I think it 's absolutely scandalous the local authority can use government money to the extent of nearly half a million pounds to provide a site for about sixteen caravans , and I do n't think it 's at all necessary . |
| 17 | I do n't think it is at all but I 've never seen it . |
| 18 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 19 | I presume you were at this morning 's ? ’ |
| 20 | I think I I mean it' ironic really , I think they 're at last getting erm the kinds of shops that that best suit the area , on Road now . |
| 21 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 22 | She smiled with relief , thinking he was at last calling off his proposal . |
| 23 | How successful have I been at various jobs ? |
| 24 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 25 | Have you been at that gym tonight ? |
| 26 | What mischief have you been at this last while , then ? ’ |
| 27 | When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour . |
| 28 | So how long have you been at these particular premises ? |
| 29 | I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out . |
| 30 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |