Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 3 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 4 | When I go back to the police station I 'll write today that I 've been at Harlowbury School all day doing a school visit and a school talk to different classes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ But blood is thicker than water and I have been at the hospital waiting to hear how she is but she has n't come round yet , ’ said Mr Harrison . |
| 8 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 9 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 12 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Sorry , but I 've been at it all day . ’ |
| 15 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 16 | Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it ! |
| 17 | Well , I feel better than I was , but I 've been at Haywoods Heath which was a religious community |
| 18 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 19 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |
| 20 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 21 | ‘ The first half was the worst we 've ever had since I 've been at the club . |
| 22 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 23 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 27 | I can get no sense into him nor out of him , though I 've been at him without relenting for days . ’ |