Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre .
2 The gulls can see the help and benefit they receive from Iago 's service , but can not see , or conceive , that Iago could be benefiting himself at the same time ; and no one could possibly see that Iago is in fact benefiting himself by destroying them .
3 So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time .
4 I 'm thinking we at the latest we can
5 It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality .
6 He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again .
7 Part of the success is to sow them at the right time .
8 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 .
9 Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time .
10 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 .
11 One of his compulsive gambits was to challenge everyone at the first meeting .
12 I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time .
13 But someone was saying something at the same time as Lord Boddy , making him falter and finally stop in midstride .
14 But the Dalek Killer was throwing himself at the golden cloud .
15 My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur .
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