Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] at [art] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To your beauty , ’ he said , though my looks at the time were nothing to write home about , ‘ coupled with the birthday of the King of Bulgaria . ’ |
| 2 | Wealthy families would while away their days at the baths being massaged with aromatic oils by the unfortunate eunuch slave whose sole function in life was to knead and pummel his master . |
| 3 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 4 | But at lunchtime on Thursday , England 's management were horrified to see that the cooked food provided for their players at the ground was already cold and in need of reheating . |
| 5 | But I accepted what G.K. Chesterton had put so well in 1911 : ‘ A woman putting up her fists at a man is a woman putting herself in the one position which does not frighten him . ’ |
| 6 | The 1989 AMERG survey of architects , however , indicates that a substantial minority ( over 28 per cent ) felt that the demand for their services at the time was not being adequately met and nearly 40 per cent felt that the intake of students into architectural training was insufficient to meet future demands . |
| 7 | He was having a wonderful time , and had at least , she noticed , retained enough good sense to make sure that his losses at the table were minimal . |
| 8 | I stood up and gazed along the barrel of the Bren gun and could n't help smiling to myself and thinking that Taff was at his funniest when he was annoyed about something , even though our circumstances at the moment were anything but funny . |
| 9 | The feeling is that our resources at the moment are rather stretched with existing projects to allow us to get involved with these very interesting , but , in the case of ‘ Dialaphone ’ , rather specialized publishing proposals . |