Example sentences of "at [adj] [pers pn] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At eleven it was understood that I washed the breakfast things and scrubbed the kitchen floor before I started my homework . |
| 2 | She has never had a period ; at eleven she was diagnosed as anorexic and hospitalised for ten weeks . |
| 3 | At 7.30 I am walking out through the town in the direction of Lochy bridge then across Blarmhor . |
| 4 | At 22 he 's living in the shadows , his life devastated by 8 years of glue-sniffing . |
| 5 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 6 | But as a small child she was so inspired by anything to do with the theatre that at six she was sent to the Barbara Speake stage school in Acton , west London . |
| 7 | At nineteen he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and later admitted to Oxford 's Littlemoor Hospital . |
| 8 | I say apparently , because at nineteen she was diagnosed as having pernicious anaemia . |
| 9 | At 17.23 I was sitting in Jake 'n' Suzi 's Unisex Salon , a tiny place that looked as though cockroaches 'd run out of corners and over your toes . |
| 10 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 11 | At 21 she is set for stardom , but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times . |
| 12 | ‘ Because at worst they are hurt , at best they are inconvenienced . ’ |
| 13 | At worst it was looked upon as evil and at best no more than a utilitarian pest-destroyer . |
| 14 | Although at sixty he was becoming a little stooped , and his hair and beard that used to be jet-black were turning to silver , the force of his personality was undeniable . |
| 15 | ‘ At 17 I was placed in a mental hospital for two days . |
| 16 | In no time at all they were coasting down the slope out of the car park . |
| 17 | So they set off anyway and just in no time at all they were coming into the shore below Greentoft . |
| 18 | It starts off essentially defining them as people who are impartial , and in no time at all we are talking about them being nominated from different sector interest . |
| 19 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 20 | Mind you , I will say that when I explained things to her she was up and into her jumper and jeans in a flash and in no time at all we were hammering down the road towards Carlisle . |
| 21 | There was something on his mind , anxiety , certainly , anxiety for his family ; perhaps he had realised that if he was to get anything out of Cowley at all he was going to have to be co-operative . |
| 22 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 23 | fact if you do n't inhale at all you 're doing yourself a big favour , but you nearly always get some down ion to the system and really the o the only thing I could ethically recommend as a doctor , is stopping . |
| 24 | When I meet women from other countries and they talk about Western feminism and Third World feminism , I did n't see it that way at all I was looking for a political party and I found that I could n't find any which suited my political beliefs and a party that combined Third World and British issues . |
| 25 | In no time at all I was conducting the band , having a few drinks and thoroughly enjoying myself . |
| 26 | This lady must have been psychic or something , because in no time at all she was asking if I could enlarge necks on jumpers that other people had made too small to go over the head . |
| 27 | Lori 's suite was several floors above , but the express lift whisked her upwards , so that in no time at all she was knocking on the door . |
| 28 | At 18 I was saying ‘ I 'm a man and ready to tackle this ’ . |
| 29 | At 18 he was earning 8s , at 20 he was earning 14s , then in August 1910 , his seven years being served , he was earning 32s . |
| 30 | In the previous stage Francis had comfortably beaten double light-middleweight champion Tim Taylor , and at 18 he was considered a title hope . |