Example sentences of "[noun prp] be at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled . |
| 2 | The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos . |
| 3 | What do you mean we did n't get pissed at Scott 's at all . |
| 4 | Meet us round Andy 's at half ten it 's five past . |
| 5 | ‘ They just want to tell us which parts of their bodies are out of the Levi 's at any one time . ’ |
| 6 | But then it occurred to him that perhaps the joke was Nicola 's and not Blufton 's at all , some invention to impress her boss and ensure her succession to Jane Pargeter 's job . |
| 7 | Napoleon was at this time trying to push the Russians into war with Turkey , and Czartoryski , aware of this , had no wish to see Russia involved on Serbia 's side in a conflict with the sultan . |
| 8 | Since Hill was at that time one of the most popular comedy stars in the world , one might have imagined that the company 's duty to its shareholders was to maximise profits . |
| 9 | you know the way Andrea was at that age ? |
| 10 | Gorbachev was at this time on an official visit to West Germany , which was curtailed somewhat in view of domestic developments . |
| 11 | FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS . |
| 12 | Even in the nineteenth century , many hundreds of vessels passed through the Straits each year , most of them small coasting ships but also a good many larger vessels trading between Europe and the East Indies ( Java and Sumatra were at that time prosperous Dutch colonies ) . |
| 13 | Li Yuan is not to know , but I want us to know where Kim is at all times . |
| 14 | In calling at Gillman 's at all , he must have been coming to ask her to go out with him . |
| 15 | Curtis was at that time Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Transvaal and he was not motivated in what he did by any particular animus towards Indians . |
| 16 | Ray was at that time a member of the Morris Side and would be very glad to hear from any of his contemporaries , although his style of dancing is rather different these days . |
| 17 | She was amazed how much easier the tube journey to Mornington Crescent was at this time of the day . |
| 18 | My relationship with Marcia Williams was at all times rather chilly . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most striking case of this is J. A. Thugut , Austrian representative at Constantinople in 1769–75 , who was throughout these years an agent in French pay regularly transmitting confidential information to his French colleague , the Comte de Saint-Priest ( though it is true that French and Austria were at that time allies , at least in name ) . |
| 20 | Above all , the conducteur is prominent ; he is not telling the band to stop , since Duport is at this moment ‘ dancing lightly around the hero laid low . ’ |
| 21 | He gave the jury a list of Meehan 's past convictions , knowing that he was prevented by the rules of evidence from telling them that Waddell was at that moment serving a sentence in Barlinnie for wounding or that he had served a previous sentence for perjury at Meehan 's trial . |
| 22 | Here they take an intransigent line , denying that Wittgenstein was at all impressed by such questions . |
| 23 | At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis . |
| 24 | Michael and Anne Heseltine were at either end of a large table of their constituents ; attending to the annual ritual whereby the faithful are rewarded for a year spent addressing envelopes and running bazaars . |
| 25 | I had but erm we set off from Irene 's at half past ten you see . |
| 26 | John Allison was at that time based at Coningsby and seeing as he would initially be carrying out all the flying on the aircraft , it seemed an obvious choice to base it there . |
| 27 | Liz was at this stage engrossed by the dramatic , blinding , smoky disaster of her own marriage , which after only six weeks managed to transform herself and Edgar into mockeries of their former selves , loud puppets mouthing insults on an unreal battlefield . |
| 28 | As a result Camberwell was at this time one of the most fertile art schools in Britain . |
| 29 | But , as Oliver has already challenged their whereabouts on the evening Sabine was killed , I will say this : on that evening the Josephs were at that man 's house . |
| 30 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |