Example sentences of "be [adv] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 2 | Cos we 're not at the pictures |
| 3 | At Westward Ho ! you 're virtually at the waters edge , and it is possible to change for swimming in your own bungalow . |
| 4 | After electing Labour 's Ashok Kumar last November , they are back at the polls barely five months later . |
| 5 | John and Muriella , who was an excellent archer , were eager to be out at the butts . |
| 6 | They 'll delay till they are virtually at the doors of the courthouse . |
| 7 | Last night Carol 's distraught parents , from Southport , Merseyside , were still at the newly-weds ' home in Los Angeles . |
| 8 | Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew . |
| 9 | Alexandra Loyd , her cousin Diana Wake-Walker and Claire Pratt , the daughter of her godmother Sarah Pratt , were also at the all-girls ' boarding-school near Diss in Norfolk . |
| 10 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 11 | He chopped the fruit into pieces ; Bobo and Fifi were now at the bars again and getting quite vocal . |
| 12 | Her family and friends were now at the margins of her new life . |
| 13 | Saviour Stuart said : ‘ We deserved a draw in the end , but in the first half we struggled and were n't at the races . |
| 14 | ‘ So where did you go if you were n't at the police station ? |
| 15 | Oh he 's always at the doctors ! |
| 16 | It is ironically at the points at which Lévi-Strauss and Barthes transgress ‘ structuralism ’ that their work is most successful ; when they produce inspired accounts of the hidden meanings of cultural forms that have been taken for granted . |
| 17 | I think that people need to know what we are providing so we need to be monitoring , continually monitoring that this is actually at the times it 's meeting people 's needs and I 'm sure that we will be hearing from members if it was n't , and we 're not I mean it seems to me that the level of services provided now is very satisfactory and we should n't y'know , obviously give our officers support to continue . |
| 18 | What he had was a pampered , spoilt brat whose only interest in life was lipstick and what was on at the pictures . |
| 19 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 20 | He was still at the barriers that funnelled the mob into a line under the cynical eyes of a guard when she struggled up behind him . |
| 21 | In June after the export licence was finally granted ( following a lengthy fund-raising campaign to keep the cabinet in Great Britain ) , the cabinet was still at the restorers in London . |
| 22 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 23 | She was back at the curtains again . |
| 24 | Seconds later she was back at the traps being caressed by her trainer , Ian Carmichael , who with his brother , Stephen , runs Liberton Greyhound Kennels in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | Fifi was back at the bars and stretching out her hand in a vain attempt to reach the steel tray . |
| 26 | It was Gre he was out at the Caithes and it blew up a a gale a Westerly gale and blew him across to Norway you see . |
| 27 | It was here at the Carpenters Arms in the Jericho area of Oxford that some 20 drugs squad officers arrived last night and arrested 12 people , including the landlord . |