Example sentences of "he be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only fear is that the local authority who would retain responsibility for Paul 's schooling , after normal school leaving age , if he remains a child with a statement of special educational needs , might possibly say that they would no longer pay for him being at school . |
| 2 | She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty . |
| 3 | For a moment , he almost wished he were at home , but then he shook his head as if to rid himself of the thought . |
| 4 | He were at pub . |
| 5 | He is at school . |
| 6 | The theological answer is that He feels at home anywhere because He is at home everywhere . |
| 7 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 8 | In fact Tod tends to be more upbeat with them here than he is at home ( at home , in slippers and dressing-gown , longsufferingly shuffling ) . |
| 9 | The name must not be taken to imply that the elector has only one alternative : he is at liberty to express as many preferences as there are candidates . |
| 10 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 11 | He is at Arrancay with his grandfather . ’ |
| 12 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 13 | He is at present in exile in Magadan and due to be released in December 1984 . |
| 14 | If he does , it could well be our fault , for he is at present , as are all the new-born , quite uncivilised . |
| 15 | He is at present looking more angelic than ever , trying to charm his mother into letting him have his own way ! ’ |
| 16 | He is at present living in Belgrade , threatened and insulted for the public stand he is taking , his phone tapped . |
| 17 | Well he is at javelin , and what was the other thing he was throwing , the discus ? |
| 18 | It seems he is at play while I am asleep . |
| 19 | He is at law school , laid back and jokey . |
| 20 | While , on the face of it , his case might rest on its being detrimental to his career to suggest that he is at death 's door , it seems likely that much of the evidence , especially for the defence , will be called to no other purpose than to establish whether , to put it mor euphemistically than it will be put in court , he has been putting himself about . |
| 21 | Corunna 's Civil Governor , Pilar Lledo , said : ‘ There is evidence to show he is at fault . ’ |
| 22 | Tonight , he is at hooker for Wales against England at Swansea in what could be one of his last 13-a-side appearances . |
| 23 | He is allegedly being held in a secret location in Riyadh where it is feared he is at risk of torture and execution . |
| 24 | OH LORD , HE 'S AT IT AGAIN |
| 25 | Yeah but if you 'd like to come back though cos he 's at lunch at the moment . |
| 26 | As far as I knew he 's at present on the Charlotte T. — all our ships are called something T. , as you probably know — on a trip to Hamburg . " |
| 27 | But I mean , he can , he 's at King 's anyway tomorrow so it wo n't take him long to get home . |
| 28 | No , it 's not er , it 's so much I mean , he 's at work all day , and he works all bloody hours that God sent , when they want , when they got down , |
| 29 | You mean , while he 's at work ? |
| 30 | He 's at work . |