Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) . |
| 32 | I did n't know if you were comparing it at the end . |
| 33 | So erm I do n't whether or not I s I still do n't think they were ultimately revolutionary , I think they were just erm people who they think were exploiting them at the time sort of erm you know in a certain situation |
| 34 | By the end of the tour kids were throwing themselves at the stage like little ‘ kamikazis ’ . |
| 35 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 36 | However , some on-the-job training , in skills such as cash handling or food preparation , is usually given to seasonal workers and this allows them to be moved into tasks which would have been denied them at the start of their employment . |
| 37 | It 's given everyone at the club a lift . ’ |
| 38 | Part of the success is to sow them at the right time . |
| 39 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 40 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |
| 41 | ‘ The Dream is trying to stay together , but our input is expanding it at the seams . |
| 42 | The Bishop of Woolwich , John Robinson , did this some time ago with ‘ Honest to God ’ and Don Cupitt , I think , is doing it at the moment too with his book ‘ Taking Leave of God ’ . |
| 43 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 44 | While the Independent 's raising prices , Rupert Murdoch 's cutting them at the Sun and the Times . |
| 45 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 46 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 47 | The best way to test the quality of porridge is to throw it at the wall . |
| 48 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 49 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 50 | The vociferation grew louder and louder all the time while I was serving myself at the counter . |
| 51 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |
| 52 | One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting . |
| 53 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 54 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 55 | But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride . |
| 56 | But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud . |
| 57 | It 's bigger than British Telecom which , at its profitable peak , was coining it at the rate of £90 a second . |
| 58 | I was watching it at the movies , I was watching the whole thing at the cinema . |
| 59 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 60 | At least that 's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20 . |