Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands .
2 Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay .
3 A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre .
4 A group of kids are on a roundabout , one foot on and one foot off , they are pushing it at a giddy speed , round and around until their faces form a single banded blur .
5 His original plan had been to sell her at the Sonepur Mela in Bihar , the world 's largest animal fair and their final destination .
6 Every other day we 're using it at the moment .
7 ‘ We 're having it at the end of January … ’
8 They 're having it at the co , at the university because David 's mother has some connection .
9 perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century .
10 Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county .
11 I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row .
12 ‘ I shall be seeing them at the weekend . ’
13 ‘ You 're not stupid , and neither are we , although you might be doubting it at the moment .
14 . So to work out how much energy you 're using is , how quickly am I using up energy , well I 'm using it at a rate of ten kilowatts .
15 Because she knew he would be meeting her at the road alone , she had risen very early and bathed and scented herself with special care in her suite at the Continental Palace that morning .
16 well if you think you might get some money at the end of the season , he said , you may find that you 'll be paying them at the end of the season !
17 Everybody has them and something must be holding you at a given height above the ground ! ’
18 You are going to be getting them at the end of the case in any event and why should you be kept out of them ?
19 I 'm recording you at the minute .
20 So while helping my old friend , I would be losing him at the same time .
21 Maureen Stone 's arguments that multicultural education is based on a deprivation model of black children explain how multiracial education may actually be placing them at a disadvantage .
22 I 'm showing it at the Norwich Contemporary Arts Exhibition on October the third if I can get it there .
23 I 'm thinking we at the latest we can
24 , our long serving secretary will be leaving us at the end of May .
25 Cookie would be coining it at the greengrocer 's stall , munching fruit and putting on the courtesy act to old ladies .
26 You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter .
27 It was back in England for ( Sir ) Alexander Korda [ q.v. ] in 1933 that Laughton made his screen name in The Private Life of Henry VIII at the start of a sequence of major cinema biographies ( The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) , Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) , Rembrandt ( 1936 ) , and the unfinished I Claudius ( 1936 ) ) , which were to see him at the very peak of his reflective , anguished talent for larger-than-life monsters of reality .
28 The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) .
29 We were to meet him at the airport , and when we were making all the arrangements with him on the phone , he said , ‘ Are you sure you 'll be able to recognize me ? ’
30 His partner had suddenly remembered her brothers were to meet her at the door and take her home ( an old trick , this ) .
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