Example sentences of "[be] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're at the mercy of some pilot and God knows what state they 're in , ’ he added . |
| 2 | But of course it 's , it 's a very tough deal for women , I mean women in erm in a way really get the raw end of it because that to some extent they 're at the mercy of the whole system , even though they can if they absolutely have to . |
| 3 | He says you 're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you . |
| 4 | And you 're at the mercy of the landlord putting the rent up Brenda . |
| 5 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 6 | ‘ But I still do n't see why we 're at the centre of the Universe , ’ said Gedanken . |
| 7 | So they all think they 're at the centre of the Big Bang . ’ |
| 8 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 9 | Suppose they 're at the bottom of the sea now . |
| 10 | It 's obviously best that he continues to believe you 're at the bottom of the Danube , or halfway to the Black Sea by now . ’ |
| 11 | The last thing you need when you 're at the bottom of the table is to concede an early free kick but today Notts did just that . |
| 12 | but er , I do n't I , I obviously gone have a way of doing this , but erm , it 's difficult , if you , if you 're at the bottom of the |
| 13 | We 're at the base of a greystone railway viaduct . |
| 14 | So the big the thing that 's providing everything , you take the petrol out , you wo n't go unless you 're at the top of a hill , of course because it can |
| 15 | Yeah erm go to , when you 're at the top of the stairs first on the right . |
| 16 | The other thing I was wondering is about the grave-diggers. nowadays they 're at the side of the grave ready are n't they . |
| 17 | You know , you 're at the side of them and one starts to come around , you know , when you 're doing sort of seventy and I 'm at maximum speed , he 's got plenty of you |
| 18 | You 're at the end of the road . ’ |
| 19 | And so the er , the reward for our firm grip on costs and the concentration on cash is a favourable swing of , of forty seven er , million pounds in the full year and there should be more to come because now we 're at the end of our er , capital spend on newspapers er , the newspapers will of course , become very substantial cash generators . |
| 20 | How do you know if you 're at the end of a sentence . |
| 21 | ‘ Um — is that putting patients in order of priority as they come in so that you do n't leave people to bleed to death because they 're at the end of the queue ? ’ |
| 22 | But can I say something erm , Bill , we 're at the end of a Parliament erm John Major |
| 23 | Certainly within universities the more senior the the member of staff the more likely they are apparently to use a desk as a barrier erm so that they sort of er y'know you see them from behind a desk , when you 're at the front of the desk and they 're behind the desk . |
| 24 | The PMRC , who 're at the forefront of censoring music in America , certainly think so , in their usual over-reacting way . |
| 25 | As soon as I get to sleep , I dream I 'm at the bottom of the sea . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm at the centre of a giant trapezoid monument to life : poised between dumb gravity and my senseless urge to struggle on . |
| 27 | I 'm at the centre of this universe as well . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm at the top of Hornby Street one night/early morning . |
| 29 | And for someone in my position to make a jump from one thing to another and to be feeling better than I 've felt in ten years , feeling like I 'm at the top of my game creatively at the moment , must mean that I 've grown in the making of this album . |
| 30 | Either I 'm at the height of my powers or I 'm suffering from delusions of grandeur . |