Example sentences of "she [be] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 In fact , she 's over at the Yard now chattin' up some foreman or other she 's got eatin' out of her hand .
2 ‘ I 'm afraid she 's out at the moment , ’ he said .
3 My mother 's amazing — she 's so reserved , and very English , yet the minute the curtain goes up , she 's down at the front .
4 Another canteen worker in the same village told me she does a shift from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. , returns home to work for her family , then she 's back at the pit from 7.30 p.m. until 10.45 p.m .
5 She 's in at the hostel at least an hour before she starts .
6 She also wants to exercise to improve muscle tone during this period ; she can then see what shape she is in at the end of the year before she decides whether or not she really does need to lose those extra 4 lb ( 1.8 kg ) .
7 She was up at the window looking out .
8 It seemed she was up at the Jubilee Tower practising the tango with Nigel and they would be down shortly with the papers .
9 He smiled at her again later when she was up at the bar ordering a second round for her and Natasha , as he and his friends were standing further along the bar .
10 Today she was up at the crack of dawn , 4.30 , to make breakfast for her man friend .
11 ‘ No , but she says she was round at the local .
12 Perhaps her greatest defiance , the extravagant music centre she had ordered from the junk mail , arrived when she was out at the restaurant .
13 She was down at the scene of the picket .
14 She was back at the curtains again .
15 ‘ It 's time she was back at the hospital . ’
16 She was back at the hotel by 7.45 .
17 Three hours later she was back at the rendezvous but there was no sign of the canoe , only the sound of surf breaking on the beach two miles away .
18 All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side .
19 She was back at the desk when he stood up , stretched elaborately , and said : ‘ Guess I 'll get myself a cup of coffee . ’
20 In her mind , she was back at the flat in rue Roland , a jumble of bloodstained sheets confronting her .
21 But she kept on running , as panic overtook her , and did n't stop until she was back at the lift .
22 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 .
23 It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end .
24 As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion .
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