Example sentences of "be [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been on at my husband to get a fitted carpet in this room because this lino drives me mad . |
| 2 | I have been on at Desmond about it , as a matter of fact , which I suppose is what she wanted . |
| 3 | Oh and you used to let us stop up and watch him , it must of been on at about nine o'clock or something |
| 4 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 5 | I do n't want to turn round cos the lights are on at the moment . |
| 6 | Landscape , of course , is his forte and a show of recent works in this department ( oil paintings and graphics ) are on at Marlborough starting 6 January and continuing until the end of the month . |
| 7 | Francois Morellet is showing ‘ Relache ’ , a series of recent works whose title pays homage to Picabia , at Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert ( 16 January to 20 February ) while Vera Rohm 's ‘ Foto-tele ’ , monumental sculptures , are on at Nikki Diana Marquadt until the middle of January , together with large panels by Horst Haack , taken from pages of one of his albums , covered with sketches , quotations , poems and newspaper cuttings . |
| 8 | Recent abstractions by Cora Cohen are at McCoy until 20 March and , until the same date , the ever brighter , ever quirkier biomorphisms of Carroll Dunham are on at Sonnabend . |
| 9 | New works by her are on at American Fine Arts from 6 to 27 March ) while Michael St John , also smitten with folks from ‘ toon town , paints cartoon characters in the act of doing double takes against vast white backgrounds ( at Amy Lipton until the end of the month ) . |
| 10 | I think it 's fair to say that with this new computer erm the box office that we 've got a lot of information can be stored on that and in future we 'll be using a much more erm sophisticated in a scientific way for instance if you came here and book that seat that your sitting in tonight we would know on that computer what type of show that your discouraging coming to erm we can say to you we can send you out a leaflet saying the kind of er things that you 'd like to see are on at the playhouse on such and such a date and we could even say to you would you like the seat that you normally sit in . |
| 11 | David Bates 's concisely bold figure studies Marsden Heartly often seems to haunt his work are on at Cowles and Susan Rothenberg 's nervous-making fractured figurations are at Sperone Westwater ( both shows from 2–30 May ) . |
| 12 | New black-and-white prints by him are on at Arthur Roger until the 24th . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Davies has been busy with the camera and his latest 16 x 20 inch black-and-white prints of sharply-shadowed New York store fronts are on at Sonnabend through to the end of the month . |
| 14 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 15 | I would rather have been down at the villa making figgy hedgehogs for Tony but a promise is a promise . |
| 16 | Maggie immediately thought of the lack of seagulls she 'd noticed when she 'd been down at the sea-front . |
| 17 | The gate may have been down at Sanford Smith 's fourth annual Works on Paper exhibition in New York 's Park Avenue Armory from 3 to 5 April , but most of the participants had little to complain about . |
| 18 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 19 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 20 | Apparently he 's been down at Streatley since the weekend , but Joanne says he should be back today . |
| 21 | ‘ Has he been down at Streatley ? ’ |
| 22 | I went to Scotland Yard this morning and saw an Inspector and told him all about our suspicions , and about how we knew Nigel had been down at Streatley that Saturday — ’ |
| 23 | ‘ She might have been down at the jetty a couple of hours ago . |
| 24 | then she said they 've been down at the this time of year |
| 25 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
| 26 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 27 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 28 | No Chris should have been in at six , that 's when the first team started counting . |
| 29 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 30 | It 's really confusing , cos kids are they 'll all of been in at play time today wo n't they ? |