Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Stand ) Neither of them are now at leeds , one is playing in the USA and the other is dossing around for a year ( so he says ) before trying to get in with a lower division club . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm back at Spurs , I 'm captain , and my first game is against my former club . ’ |
| 3 | Its funny you know , sometimes when I 'm out at schools the kids will come up to me and say , ‘ Do you have to go to work now ? ’ |
| 4 | I was out at clubs every night : Munkberry 's , The Embassy , Global Village . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's no wonder we 're always at odds with each other . |
| 6 | Oddly enough , they are both at times connected to the person or horse suffering from extreme psychological stress or depression from which they can find no relief or escape . |
| 7 | It is ironic that those two Members were allies in forcing the Madrid conditions on the exchange rate mechanism on the right hon. Lady and they are now at odds over further developments in the Community , but they can still both vote for this meaningless motion . |
| 8 | They were also at times short of water , although they no doubt learnt to manage on very little , and their encampments would have been spread out to take advantage of several watercourses at each halt in the journey . |
| 9 | Individually they were always at pains to stress the provisional nature of the conceptual apparatus , and their flexibility can be seen in the way in which the theory evolved to include new topics such as narrative and literary history . |
| 10 | ‘ I still see him , but it 's mostly at games now because we 're both in management . |
| 11 | It 's usually at weekends you know |
| 12 | As such , it is not at odds with the ‘ litmus-test ’ of self-advocacy , seeming to support a view of people as potentially autonomous and with a right to self-determination within a less restrictive social milieu . |
| 13 | It is even at times disastrously lengthy in large concerns , notably in governmental ones . ’ |
| 14 | It is also at odds with the reported findings of Black et al . |
| 15 | It is also at odds with psycholinguistic evidence on speech processing . |
| 16 | Today , it is often at times of intimacy in worship that the voice of the Lord will be heard through prophecy , tongues with interpretation , exhortation , or the reading of a scripture that has a particular relevance . |
| 17 | It is only at weekends and during the holidays . |
| 18 | It is only at times of real crisis , when these individuals have reached the end of their tether , that they will break this code and make themselves known . |
| 19 | In this view he is completely at odds with Chomsky ( 1965:31 ) , who assumes that actual language is ‘ degenerate ’ and deviates from the rules of grammar . |
| 20 | Catching sight of his reflection in the window he felt a surge of self-pity and suddenly realized that he missed Ellen very badly , and that it was only at moments like this , when he surprised himself , that he could admit how much he needed her . |
| 21 | It was only at weekends . |
| 22 | Gandhi was sufficiently aware of the utilitarian formula of the greatest happiness of the greatest number to realize that he was completely at odds with it as an interpretation of the aim anti purpose of life and as a principle of morality . |
| 23 | But he was also at pains to point out that the wind is 2–5 per cent down on historical averages and that the water temperature is five degrees higher , producing softer winds than his boats had been designed for . |
| 24 | He was also at pains to stress that the Soviet Union had not been " bought " — it was not co-operating with the USA on the Gulf crisis in order to obtain economic aid . |
| 25 | And yet underneath this diffident and subdued exterior , there was a passionate temperament which he was generally at pains to control . |
| 26 | Like so many of his partners in the glamorous underground of Scottish football , he was perpetually at loggerheads with the Scottish Football Association , and saw the administrators of the game as artless bureaucrats obsessed with rules and regulation . |
| 27 | And now here she was , and he was all at odds , wanting to go to her , knowing he could not . |
| 28 | He was constantly at loggerheads with the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers , who controlled the London trade , and he did not join the Company until 1656 , when his freedom was granted by direct order of Oliver Cromwell , whose cause he supported during the civil war . |
| 29 | He was constantly at odds with the Professional Golfers ' Association , once declining to play in the Ryder Cup match because of petty restrictions put on the players . |
| 30 | ‘ He was continually at loggerheads with David . |