Example sentences of "he [be] at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is trying to joke , she senses he is at a loss for the first time that afternoon . |
| 2 | While the seller is there he is at an advantage over the competition ; thus part of the salesperson 's job is to try to close the sale . |
| 3 | Before he can open his mouth he gets a simple instruction from each of us , so he stands switching his gaze from her to me and back again like he 's at a tennis match . |
| 4 | He 's at a Council meeting just now . |
| 5 | Tonight he 's at a hospice in Oxford . |
| 6 | And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion . |
| 7 | He 's at a meeting in London this morning , but he 'll be back tonight . |
| 8 | He 's at a party in Toronto to honour his pal Warren Beatty ; someone is always giving a party for Beatty and when they do n't he gives one for himself . |
| 9 | He was at a window table but he was ignoring the river , being deep in conversation with a middle-aged man wearing a suit and a short sheepskin car coat with matching brown suede shoes . |
| 10 | The twentieth century has its own Christian martyrs : St Maximilian Kolbe , who exchanged places with a condemned Jew in the concentration camp and was starved along with his fellow prisoners , before being fatally injected with carbolic acid ; Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a minister of the Confessing Church of Germany , who was executed by the Nazis ; and Archbishop Romero , gunned down when he was at a prayer meeting . |
| 11 | He was at a standstill for just 7.5secs and returned with his lead still intact . |
| 12 | ‘ According to Rose , he was at a factory in Anduze by nine and spent the rest of the morning there . |
| 13 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 14 | When the accident happened at Chernobyl he was at a party meeting in Moscow . |
| 15 | ‘ He was at a party . |
| 16 | he was at a party your dad ? |
| 17 | He was at a police station , being questioned . |
| 18 | And there he was at a car boot sale , it was like |
| 19 | Wycliffe was not usually so curt with the press , but he was at a stage in the case when he wanted to be left alone to mull over what he knew and to decide what more he needed to know . |
| 20 | ‘ I think he was at a stage where he dare not sleep . |
| 21 | These activities led in turn to further meetings at Lambeth Palace in January and March 1938 , to consider the formation of a British section of the World Council of Churches ; in September , he was at a meeting of the Council on the Christian Faith and the Common Life . |
| 22 | that he was at a meeting where Margaret Thatcher was speaking , and he erm made a comment about what the people in his constituency perceived about something , and she got up and said ‘ now that 's totally wrong ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ If you 're looking to buy , I 've nothing to sell , ’ said Alan for openers as if he was at a jumble sale . |
| 24 | He also received an honorary degree at Harvard University — it is a measure of his popularity , perhaps , that when he was at a reception there with E. M. Forster the students and teachers ignored the novelist and crowded around the poet . |
| 25 | Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games . |
| 26 | Sandison was not surprised by this but he was at a loss as to how to proceed . |
| 27 | Tamar always seemed to be in a bad mood recently and he was at a loss to discover the reason . |
| 28 | He was at a loss to describe the sky , its lilac whiteness , so ineffable above him that it was like a secret waiting to be deciphered , reflecting everything and seeping into the thin mist on the ground . |
| 29 | He was at a loss . |
| 30 | Billy was too close to the policeman to make any suggestion , though he was at a loss anyway , but Freddie suddenly remembered something he had read in a newspaper about the temperance revivals in the East End of London . |