Example sentences of "i be at " in BNC.

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1 How successful have I been at various jobs ?
2 Had I been at Spithead , I should certainly have joined the mutineers .
3 And I suppose it might have been serious had I been at Low Birk Hatt on my own with no help when that virus struck me down .
4 ‘ Both Deborah and I are at our wits ’ end . ’
5 Not while the Captain and I are at war .
6 For a start , and leaving aside the merits and demerits of PR — on which the NSS and I are at variance — one obvious fact ought to be hammered home .
7 Here S. O. Letterman and I are at odds .
8 Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy .
9 Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one ,
10 Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet .
11 I need to introduce a different dimension and I am at a loss .
12 Is it because I am at a loss as to how to go on ?
13 I am at the bus stop and have dropped my busfare .
14 ‘ I may not be as much with my family as I should be , but at least I am at home , ’ he reasons .
15 It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here .
16 December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking .
17 But I am at least honest in this .
18 Already I have the feeling that I 'm a bit too thin — that Anna , whose house I am at , will say that I was never fat in the first place : ‘ Oh , you 're all right , skinny ribs ’ ; that mixture of dismissal and envy she uses , excluding me from the problems of other girls , from real problems like her fat thighs , or her backside that could do with ‘ half an hour on a bacon slicer ’ , as she puts it .
19 I am at her mercy at the moment though I keep her and pay her well and might look with justice for harder work from her , but when I am over my lying-in I will be behind her you can be sure .
20 Then , once I am at home , I usually think the whole of it was splendid , and hate having to settle down to the monotonous , lonely life of a writer .
21 I am at that crossroads .
22 I recognize my fault ( if there is a fault ) and my debt ( if there is to be a debt ) but the question now is this : if I 'm not completely broke , I am at least in serious trouble .
23 There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year …
24 ‘ Then I am at your service . ’
25 I am sure you are as appalled as I am at the use that has been made of the private letter of a schoolboy to his parents , but it is certainly a lesson for you in the ways of the world . ’
26 ‘ My children , I am at fault .
27 Her performances were legendary , and I am at a loss to describe them now .
28 But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors . ’
29 My wife and I both dive when I am at home and we have a number of friends who run dive charter operations in the Keys .
30 I am at the Sadler 's Wells School until my father arrives in April .
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