Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] at [adj] [noun] " 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 company as a whole employs 3,800 people , but only 22 of them are at corporate headquarters in Boston . |
| 3 | How successful have I been at various jobs ? |
| 4 | I am at that crossroads . |
| 5 | A while ago I considered changing my snookering nickname ( which I am at complete liberty to do , because I 'm the only one who uses it ) , to take account of the New Weather : global warming , and so on . |
| 6 | But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’ |
| 7 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 8 | but what I , what would be a possibility at sixty two , when I 'm at that point , I 'd be receiving half pay |
| 9 | I said , ‘ I 'm at One fifth Avenue , that 's Spring 7–7000 . ’ |
| 10 | and that 's why I 'm at One House , Wade house . |
| 11 | You know , you 're at the side of them and one starts to come around , you know , when you 're doing sort of seventy and I 'm at maximum speed , he 's got plenty of you |
| 12 | That 's right : I 'm at med school . |
| 13 | Who 'd have believed , I were at other night right ? |
| 14 | From time to time , and I think mainly to keep in touch , Aunt Janie would ring me to ask if I could come to the house to help with a small task , such as fixing the cellar door , hammering in a stray loose plank over the cistern and so on — although she must have known as well as I did how useless I was at such household chores . |
| 15 | ‘ I was at prep school and public school and got the message that emotions were frowned upon , ’ he says . |
| 16 | I was in one home for three years when I was at junior school . |
| 17 | My best memory when I was at Primary School was that I was a member of a Gymnastics club and for many weeks we rehearsed our routine to do in front of the school and parents . |
| 18 | What had changed was two things , one that the governor of the state had talked about defying the court rather than actually do it and secondly , that Eisenhower had summoned Forbus to see him at Camp David , the president 's summer retreat in Maryland , and had a weekend of talks with Forbus Now I was n't there , I was at primary school then , but I was n't there as far as one can piece it together what , what Eisenhower said to Forbus was , you know , I do n't really care what you do , but I do n't want it on prime time national television , I do n't want a scene , I do n't want you to flagrantly , openly , publicly to flout the order of the court . |
| 19 | I was at all times impressed by their standard of workmanship . |
| 20 | I was at that time in Jesus Christ , Superstar . |
| 21 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 22 | I was at that time really completely persuaded of the relevance and interest of this approach and of this subject matter . |
| 23 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 24 | So my mother brought us all to on the train and er I was at that time about let's see nineteen thirty twenty I think I was eight years of age then . |
| 25 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 26 | I was at that party last night , the same as you . ’ |
| 27 | I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one |
| 28 | I had never been so tempted to hit any man as I was at that moment . |
| 29 | I know how good you were because I was at that stage in maths where I felt rudderless and becalmed , drifting helplessly as it were , as my peer group — the rest of the fleet — sailed serenely on towards the horizon . |
| 30 | Before losing out to Northampton who were bullies , I was at that match at Buckingham Road and I thought they were bullies , especially Bobby Barnes , not the wrestler , used to play for West Ham , but he plays for Northampton now , he 's gone now , but they were , they , they were naughty . |