Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] at " in BNC.
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1 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
2 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
3 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
4 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
5 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
6 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
7 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
8 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
9 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
10 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
11 | The next time I noticed was at the terminus |
12 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |
13 | Item four , application by Homes , in conjunction with the for thirty six flats for residential development , on the land which I assume is at the rear of House , in erm , I will need some guides on it , because it 's a ghost before my time , erm , does anyone like |
14 | I remember being at my desk and telling her , ‘ Even if you do n't hear me typing it does n't mean I 'm not writing … . ’ |
15 | In the early 40s I remember being at the Hilker house off South Granville Street when Yehudi Menuhin was in town for a concert . |
16 | The Dents owned the very first car in Baldersdale and that created quite a stir I remember being at school when they first drove it round the place and the teacher brought us all out on to the road to have a closer look at this amazing thing . |
17 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
18 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
19 | I always thought I had a good appetite , but I remember being at a college feast once at Cambridge , where they had seven or eight courses and the elderly dons seemed to have less trouble than anyone else getting through it . |
20 | ‘ The first time I remember was at home , ’ said Marian . |
21 | Before , I loved being at home but I loved being in work too and I do miss it , the girls and all . |
22 | ‘ I suppose being at an emotional low I did actually take heroin there for the first time , ’ he said . |
23 | The only poor shot I hit was at the 14th , when a little wedge went right over the green . ’ |
24 | the first piece of Bhimji 's work I saw was at her degree show at Goldsmiths ' College in 1987 . |
25 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
26 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
27 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
28 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
29 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
30 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |