Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] to be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SIET hands out around £50,000 a year to young Scots who need help to get on and , often in the nature of things , to get out of Scotland for a while : some physics graduate from St Andrews who needs time at MIT , a violinist who needs to be at a foreign conservatoire . |
| 2 | It is only the Lancastrians who appear to be at all sun-wary . |
| 3 | U. supporters who happen to be at the fete will have extra motivation for hitting the net behind Wesley . |
| 4 | raised the curiosity of some ladies , who happened to be at the Castle in May 1782 , to examine the ruined Chapel , and observing a large block of alabaster , fixed in the North wall of the Chapel , they imagined it might be the back of a monument formerly placed there . |
| 5 | Whilst England favours sterling and upstanding professionals like Billy Wright , Bobby Charlton and Gary Lineker , Scotland has traditionally lionised the anti-heroes , players like Alex James , Jim Baxter , Jimmy Johnstone and Mo Johnston , men who seem to be at war with authority and traumatised by their exceptional skills . |
| 6 | At least on the farm I can work ‘ flexi-time ’ , not like some of the boys who have to be at their civy job at half eight in the morning . |