Example sentences of "[conj] i [be] at " in BNC.

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1 Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book .
2 ‘ The little one , ’ she called me , although I was at least as tall as she was .
3 Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home .
4 Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet .
5 It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here .
6 In the end I contacted my good friend Tom Poulton of the Tropical Marine Centre , Exeter , on the basis that I am at least a customer of his , albeit mainly for fish rather than equipment .
7 I think perhaps that I am at least partly forgiven . ’
8 I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own …
9 Is she really like like isolated now that I 'm at boarding school really
10 A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda .
11 During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star .
12 A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo .
13 I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley .
14 ‘ I was so far on side the decision was a joke , ’ said Hazard , adding : ‘ The TV people told me after watching a replay that I was at least two yards on side . ’
15 Did I tell you that I was at Belsen just after it was liberated ? ’
16 Er I might also say , on open access which is something that I was at a meeting for yesterday in London .
17 Nevertheless , I was always thankful that I was at Magdalen , perhaps the most beautiful of Oxford colleges .
18 Does n't that mean that I was at least a little sober ?
19 When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things .
20 My one solace is that I was at your side .
21 ‘ I rather think ’ Mr Nightingale said ‘ that I was at school with your uncle C. A. Harbinger .
22 Oh well it was not a meeting that I was at then
23 Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee .
24 I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ?
25 I 'm happier at work than I am at home …
26 ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’
27 I am not sure whether I am more appalled at the prospect of the Labour party being in government than I am at the prospect of having the support of the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) and the Liberal party .
28 At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first .
29 ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’
30 They 're much better informed than I was at their age .
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