Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am ambitious and feel I am at the right age to go into management . |
| 2 | I 'm at the long ledge below the final wall of the Nose , where the Direct , Superdirect , and other routes not mentioned by Ron James converge . |
| 3 | Er , yes sir my current position er , at the moment I 'm at the licensed house trainee manager for Boddingtons Brewery and I 've held that position for five and half years . |
| 4 | Well I 'm not stupid , I mean I was n't stu , when I was at the junior schools in the country I was n't stupid |
| 5 | I was at the antenatal clinic . |
| 6 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 7 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 8 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 9 | I was at the recent launch of Opportunity 2000 , an excellent initiative by Business in the Community . |
| 10 | I was at the Royal Academy this year , and the portraits there were almost universally vile . |
| 11 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 12 | In 1974 I was at the National Theatre doing Shakespeare with Sir John Gielgud and whenever there was a play it was in repertory form , so another play came on and I had five days off , so I 'd fly to Toronto , have a three day ‘ loon ’ in Canada and then come back . |
| 13 | ‘ I was at the National Theatre doing a play about a flying picket called Line ‘ Em by Nigel Williams . |
| 14 | I was at the top end one , and all the draught come through the door , paralysed me . |
| 15 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 16 | I remember when I was at the Open University , the people who were engaged in implementing Open University programmes in the States , who were the deans in charge of the Open University experiments , were all women and all ‘ marginal ’ to the mainline male career people . |
| 17 | I was at the Old Bailey , spent about two weeks there — I had the London detective with me . |
| 18 | I was at the local convent school from twelve to eighteen years old and I was considered clever but ‘ strange ’ . |
| 19 | I was at the local high school . |
| 20 | While I was at the local Further Education College I met Michael . |
| 21 | Here , you are at the very heart of this beautiful city , staying in not so much a conventional hotel , as a comfortable home from home where your welcoming hosts are Signor and Signora Farnetani . |
| 22 | ‘ You are at the very centre of operations , Mr Woodbrain . ’ |
| 23 | It must be incredibly frustrating to have the weight of climbing opinion against you if you 're at the front end of the game and you want to climb a new line without considerable risk of topping yourself unless you place bolts . |
| 24 | Yeah , you 're at the right end ! |
| 25 | Ah but that 's the devil to try and coordinate that with an orchestra when you 're at the other end |
| 26 | If you 're at the other end , you 're actually producing something , bear in mind your opening sentence , your opening paragraph , your headline , your title , must actually hook people in . |
| 27 | Well see you 're at the wrong colour . |
| 28 | You 're at the wrong end of the snake , you 're okay . |
| 29 | you ought to see underneath the fridge , he does this in the kitchen and they 've all gone under the fridge , when you 're at the top shop or any other places where the will you have a look on the cards in the window , I 'm looking for a slide , you know , but a smaller one for him for the garden for the summer really , cos that 's just about had it that one ? |
| 30 | So you , you be at the main entrance for at the secretary 's office , right , for half past eleven , right ? |