Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then I 'd know where I am , huh , I just ca n't go to it from this end , right I 'm out tonight , I 'm at the joiners with friends so |
| 2 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 3 | Right , I 'm off cos I 'm at the careers night , tonight . |
| 4 | When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and |
| 5 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
| 6 | I was at the Combeses ' yesterday , and the Hammonds were there . |
| 7 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 8 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 9 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 10 | The scenario is world war two and you are at the controls of the fictional whirly-bird . |
| 11 | ‘ Like you were at the tables last night and the night before that ? ’ |
| 12 | No , yo you were at the juniors . |
| 13 | ‘ And you were at the Houses . |
| 14 | ‘ You were at the nuns ’ school ? |
| 15 | She is at the barricades , defending all sorts of unrespectable ideas . |
| 16 | Two years ago Mrs Ayers went next door to feed Ivy 's cat while she was at the hairdressers when she disturbed burglars at work . |
| 17 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 18 | And while we 're at the police station I suggest that you have a word with someone there about the fact that you seem to be attracting some unwelcome attention . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll buy some today when we 're at the shops . ’ |
| 20 | While we were at the Clothes Show , we noticed some fabulous haircuts and even more exciting styling ideas . |
| 21 | It was as we started our second run and we were at the lights at the corner of Portman Square , that I saw the cops had concentrated themselves on the traffic island in Baker Street . |
| 22 | By this time , we were at the boats . |
| 23 | We were at the gates , huge wrought-iron things , open , with great brick gateposts . |
| 24 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
| 25 | It 's at the cleaners … |
| 26 | The aims of Reflexology are : to relax stress and tension , the cause of approximately 75% of today 's diseases and ailments ; to relieve blocked nerve impulses that end in the feet , to improve circulation , for it is at the feet that the blood , as it is pumped around the body , changes direction . |
| 27 | It is at the conferences of Labour , the party that killed the grammar schools , that you see one fruit of that enlightened policy , which is that many of the younger delegates are incoherently illiterate . |
| 28 | Something is breaking down in our maintenance system and it is at the clients side . |
| 29 | A key to survival is knowing how to wind down — whether it be at the races , on a trip up the stunning Victoria Peak or dining on dim sum on a floating restaurant . |
| 30 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |