Example sentences of "be [adv] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At Westward Ho ! you 're virtually at the waters edge , and it is possible to change for swimming in your own bungalow .
2 They 'll delay till they are virtually at the doors of the courthouse .
3 Last night Carol 's distraught parents , from Southport , Merseyside , were still at the newly-weds ' home in Los Angeles .
4 Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew .
5 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 .
6 He chopped the fruit into pieces ; Bobo and Fifi were now at the bars again and getting quite vocal .
7 Her family and friends were now at the margins of her new life .
8 Oh he 's always at the doctors !
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
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