Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be at [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 if I was at Colchester with .
2 But still this expression tells you ‘ what happened ’ only if you are at home in the special conceptual world that belongs to these situations .
3 Generally if you 're at home for the bins and all and I fucking
4 It is as if we are at home with God , for his presence and his friendship become a greater reality for us as we grow to know him better .
5 If we are at home at the same time , we are usually both asleep . ’
6 Yeah but if they 're if they 're , if they 're at work during that period of time
7 Yes , the face was tough work ; but they were working men , they 'd be working almost as hard if they were at home in Munich .
8 Another option is to develop tests which could tell people if they were at risk of falling under a particular spell so that they could choose their pleasures wisely .
9 ( e ) There is , to put it negatively , no evidence that she did wish to persist in a refusal of a blood transfusion even if it was at risk to her life .
10 ‘ I 'm not even sure if he was at school at the same time as me . ’
11 It was if he was at home at St Andrews .
12 Yeah but if you 'd like to come back though cos he 's at lunch at the moment .
13 I do n't know how it went down because I was at home in bed asleep at night .
14 In his opening address to the special session Kaifu promised to submit legislation to prevent any recurrence of the securities scandals , which he described as " most deplorable not only because they … have seriously undermined general investor trust worldwide in the integrity of our stock markets , but also because they are at variance with our ideal of a fair society " .
15 And in the Football Post er cos everybody used to have the Football Post then , not like now , and so everybody knew what was in it and er there was like a Who and Why column in the Football Post and one of these was , Who will stop County now , you see because they was at top of the second division or something like that , and the team that was next to them was City in them days you see .
16 In principle , most people are in favour of more teamwork and better co-ordination , but in practise it often proves difficult , perhaps because it is at odds with the image of the autonomous professional who has a private relationship with his or her client .
17 I knew Washington quite well , having visited it two or three times while I was at Amherst in 1969 .
18 I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies .
19 ‘ It 's partly related to my theory of human behaviour which I 've had since I was at Fettes in Edinburgh , ’ he said .
20 The defending officer , Lt Neil Brown , said : ‘ Most of their drug abuse took place while they were at home on leave . ’
21 I waited with bated breath for this statement to be interpreted in some tactful way , such as , ‘ Could you please check your figures since mine are at variance with yours ? ’
22 An ex-BR civil engineer Glenn , 53 , of Windmill Fields , Coggeshall , had a heart attack in July 1989 while he was at work at Stratford .
23 The following November another officer entered his studio while he was at work on the massive Crucifixion and said , ‘ Sir , I have an execution against you . ’
24 But within weeks he was killed by shellfire while he was at rest at Cambrai , France , during the first major tank battle in history .
25 According to Ben Hird ( the nineteen year old winner of it in 1900 ) in his book about the arrow , the most likely story was that it was won by John Wastell at an archery tournament while he was at Cambridge in 1653–4 ( it was not unusual for silver arrows to be given as prizes in such contests ) and brought back to his family home at Scorton .
26 The research examines this conclusion since it is at variance with rational economic planning .
27 ‘ I am a different person when I am at work on the Geest or on the heath or in the dunes .
28 ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men .
29 WHEN I WAS at university in 1981–84 , the contempt , intolerance and oppression of men and their sexuality was revolting .
30 Oh yes er when I was at home as a wee boy everybody milked by hand and give their calves the milk then to drink .
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