Example sentences of "he [be] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deakin was a striker who found the net regularly and the evidence suggests that , had he been at a bigger club , he would have benefited from a better service and become a prolific scorer . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most important question in the wake of IT Year must be : what will Kenneth Baker do now that he is at a loose end ? |
| 3 | He is at a significant stage in his development , but has had an excellent domestic season and also performed well for England ‘ B ’ . |
| 4 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 5 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 6 | And because he is at the same time King , he is also responsible for the executive as well as the judicial aspect . |
| 7 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 8 | Cos he 's at no fixed address is he ? |
| 9 | I 'm glad he 's at a nice place like this . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He 's at a difficult age . ’ |
| 11 | He 's at a loose end and I 'd be enormously proud to introduce you . |
| 12 | Hill-Wood remains philosphical about the club 's disappointing run — ‘ you have good spells and bad spells ’ — and is certainly more optimistic about the club 's chances of winning major honours this season than he was at a similar stage last year . |
| 13 | When he was at a safe distance , he turned and cal led . |
| 14 | He was at a loose end . |
| 15 | They had drifted into a brief alliance now because she was out of work and he was at a loose end emotionally , but it had not worked . |
| 16 | A few hours later he was at a mega Hollywood party , the Welsh wonder from Stratford-upon-Avon , declaiming Shakespeare , drinking soundly , reciting Dylan Thomas , singing , story-telling , perhaps a little over the top , one or two thought , but to the majority a marvellous new whirlwind of talent and animal energy . |
| 17 | He was at an early age a fluent writer and speaker , and a vigorous , if at times embarrassing , supporter of his father 's cause . |
| 18 | He was at the boat-house door , taking a key from his pocket . |
| 19 | The study door was open and there he was at the far end of the laboratory . |
| 20 | ‘ He was at the far end of the table ; he had no opportunity . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Tiller presided over the one in Blackpool while he was at the grander one in Addlestone , Surrey , to which , when the Girls were playing in London , he would invite small groups for a short weekend . |
| 22 | He was at the front door when , on impulse , he turned back and said to Meg Dennison : ‘ I think you mentioned that you walked from the Old Rectory , Mrs Dennison . |
| 23 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 24 | One night he was at the old Blackfriars Ring . |
| 25 | However , reading his piece ( Market Place , July 112 ) I wonder if he was at the same Royal Show as I was . |
| 26 | He was at the same time very simple and very noble . |
| 27 | A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability . |
| 28 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 29 | You could put your hand up and ask questions , and you were n't all up at a level on him , he was at the same level as you , talking , and he knew all our abilities so he explained things more clearly to us . |
| 30 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |