Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 2 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 3 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 4 | His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination . |
| 5 | Every other day we 're using it at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're having it at the end of January … ’ |
| 7 | They 're having it at the co , at the university because David 's mother has some connection . |
| 8 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 9 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 10 | ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not stupid , and neither are we , although you might be doubting it at the moment . |
| 12 | Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning . |
| 13 | well if you think you might get some money at the end of the season , he said , you may find that you 'll be paying them at the end of the season ! |
| 14 | You are going to be getting them at the end of the case in any event and why should you be kept out of them ? |
| 15 | I 'm recording you at the minute . |
| 16 | So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time . |
| 17 | I 'm showing it at the Norwich Contemporary Arts Exhibition on October the third if I can get it there . |
| 18 | I 'm thinking we at the latest we can |
| 19 | , our long serving secretary will be leaving us at the end of May . |
| 20 | Cookie would be coining it at the greengrocer 's stall , munching fruit and putting on the courtesy act to old ladies . |
| 21 | You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter . |
| 22 | It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality . |
| 23 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 24 | We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’ |
| 25 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 26 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 27 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 28 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 29 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 30 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |