Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 2 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 3 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 4 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 5 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 6 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 7 | And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two . |
| 8 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 9 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 10 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |
| 12 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 13 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 14 | This did not mean a dramatic drop in popularity : indeed , his approval rating was higher in 1966 and early 1967 than it had been at any point since the Algerian crisis . |
| 15 | Ghandi , I think , in the early eighties epitomised , to a large degree , and attitude of concern about erm violence , and I think that in some large measure the sort of recognition that it gained , particularly in the awards and so on , had a lot to do with its subject matter as against it 's actual execution , and I think that if it had been at another time , or if the subject matter had n't been erm quite as powerful as that old genius 's life was , I do n't think it would have won the awards . |
| 16 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 17 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 18 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 19 | I should think he is tired , he 's been running around this field , he 's been at deep square leg , at third man and everywhere and he just gave me that blank stare . |