Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 2 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 3 | I am fed up at times |
| 4 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 5 | I 'm looking out at the moodily lit bathroom and wondering what I would do if I suddenly saw William appear out there , flight bags in hand , a Surprise , honey , I 'm home ! look on his face . |
| 6 | I 'm getting off at Ibiza . |
| 7 | I 'm tied up at the hospital the weekend after . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm tied up at the hospital for a while each day , but we could be together most of the time . |
| 9 | Ma and Luke are relieved to see that I 'm settling down at last . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 11 | Look , sergeant , when I 'm driving a four-wheeler , I 'm perched up at the front . |
| 12 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 13 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 14 | It was late and I was looking down at Chung Kuo , wondering what lay ahead . |
| 15 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 16 | I was looking down at her , brown knees drawn up to her chin and the open V of her shirt showing the round of her breasts , even the pinking of the nipple circles . |
| 17 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 18 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 19 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 20 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 21 | Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was |
| 22 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 23 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 24 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 25 | I was put down at Whitcross , a crossroads on the moor , after travelling for two days in the coach . |
| 26 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 27 | I was set down at Nurina and returned to my roomette before the train tackled the " long straight " , a point where the line runs across the dead heart of the Nullarbor , a distance of 478 kilometres . |
| 28 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 29 | ‘ I would feel the same sense of pride and commitment as the other guys if I was to run out at Murrayfield with a Scottish shirt on . |
| 30 | After a year or two I was nipping out at lunchtime to pick up a new skirt for the office party , calling at the dry cleaners , handing in the photos to be developed and meeting friends for lunch with the best of them . |