Example sentences of "[pron] he [be] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may not in fact manage to produce what meets the requirement , even when something he knows about would meet the requirement ; but that is simply a failure in a sort of performance in which he is at least sometimes capable of success , while no instrument is ever capable of it at all . |
| 2 | The Boy does not have that rather hoarse sound that Falla wanted , but sounds merely like a well-trained choirboy. master peter sounds neither servile , which he is at the start , nor terrified , which he should be at the end . |
| 3 | The conditions of his social scientific success have been the denunciation of the Parisian intellectual avant-garde , which he is at the same time quite integrally part and parcel of . |
| 4 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 5 | His branch , in which he was at first the only officer , was called GS ( R ) . |
| 6 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know who he was at the time , ’ Joe admits . |
| 8 | I bet you he 's at home . |
| 9 | Whatever else was wrong with him he was at least honest , Carrie thought as she ran up the town . |
| 10 | bigger I mean he he he 's at least as tall as you if not bigger and er also |
| 11 | The rest of the speech is saying that since the whole argument must have no excuse for what he is at the moment , it must be looked at like this : that when he becomes greater , he will become very dangerous to Rome : like a serpent still in the egg , which , when hatched , will become deadly . |
| 12 | But how will Lachlan handle a wife that knows what he 's at , and has a great clan of powerful relations at her call if she 's ill done by , then ? ’ |
| 13 | She knew what he was at once . |
| 14 | What was more , the old lady knew what he was at , for the look she shot her companion had been brimful of mischief . |
| 15 | And then , before she could realise what he was at and pull away , his lips brushed hers , so gently , so fleetingly that she might almost have dreamed it . |
| 16 | I 'm sure he 's done his England career a load of good … he 'll be concidered a good footballer now he 's at Rovers ( even though he 'll be doing eaxctly what he was at Leeds ! ! ! ! |
| 17 | His face was in shadow , and Harry , fascinated and fearful , ventured to lean out a little from his eyrie to watch what he was at . |
| 18 | In fact when Boy first came to us he was at the point of exhaustion . |