Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] at [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eat ‘ dinner ’ at nine in the evening or even later , while I am ravenous at five o'clock when at home we would usually be having tea . |
| 2 | I 've come straight from the hospital , and now I 'm on my way to St Mary 's , where I 'm due at five . |
| 3 | And she said , that 's right you did say , she said I 'm all at sixes and sevens she said , and everything 's upside down ! |
| 4 | I was present at 56 ships going to the bottom — and one German sub . |
| 5 | My respected landladies , who are the double-distilled quintessence of considerateness and island hospitality , would think all good would leave their abodes if a dweller beneath their roof left fasting , so , in spite of all my entreaties to the contrary , a cup of tea was prepared to forestall my start ; and as I walked by the river-side and reached a road that skirts a number of very massive peat-stacks , and displays on the landward side an interminable host of peat-pits , the geniality of the sunshine was felt , and I would gladly have slackened my pace were it not that by so doing my good friends at Gress ( some eight miles from Stornoway , where I was due at eight o'clock , if I remember rightly ) , might have waited breakfast for me . |
| 6 | I was famous at 18 so knew early on that it was part of my job description . ’ |
| 7 | I tell you what I nearly wa , I nearly did end up like he did , I was frightened at one time ! |
| 8 | I was horrified at 15 . |
| 9 | Perhaps you always have your evening meal at seven o'clock — but , if you are hungry at six , that is when you should eat . |
| 10 | You 're due at four-thirty at his office at the House of Commons after Treasury Questions , whatever they are . |
| 11 | Mr A is good at one , three , five and Mrs B is responsible for the skills that she 's good at one , two , three , four , five eight . |
| 12 | We were all at sixes and sevens , getting in one another 's way . |
| 13 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 14 | They are available at four levels : |
| 15 | They are available at three levels and are aimed primarily at those seeking entry to higher education . |
| 16 | I I think if you 've got a moderately or well differentiated tumour and i it 's solitary and it 's small and they 're clear at three months tell them to stop smoking by all means . |
| 17 | Shares in Gateshead-based Quality Software Products Holdings Plc soared to a 41% premium to the 380 pence issue price when trading began yesterday on the London International Stock Exchange : they were firm at 537 pence by mid-morning . |
| 18 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 19 | When Father Barnes reiterated that he was perfectly all right and that Mrs McBride who did for him was due at ten thirty , he did n't persist . |
| 20 | It 's live at eight o'clock in the morning . |
| 21 | It 's cheaper at twenty six ninety nine , I had to ask about that cos I could n't see it |
| 22 | It 's simple at nine , twenty you know , it goes down , it 's got a particular pattern . |
| 23 | Tt erm and explore the salary a bit more because again I said it 's basic at thirty five and there 's a few other bits and pieces but you never really got to grips with what those other bits and pieces are , yeah there 's performance related pay , location allowances , a company car , there 's BUPA , all those bits and bobs need to be identified . |
| 24 | It is reimbursable at 365 francs or in IBM shares worth 101% of that . |
| 25 | I just think it is odd at 17 to spend all your time with one person . |
| 26 | yes , well it is dark at four |
| 27 | ‘ How can you leave out Gower by saying he is old at 35 and yet include John Embury , who is 40 ? ’ |
| 28 | Or if a wife was earning , working or had a pension and did use her allowances , but the husband was paying forty percent , the same switch of investments , transferring income to the wife , even though it was chargeable at twenty percent or twenty five , was relieving the husband 's forty percent . |
| 29 | It was fashionable at one time to see this process crudely in terms of mere military subjugation . |
| 30 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |