Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 2 | The applause from the crowd round the green must have been heard back at the clubhouse . |
| 3 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 4 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 5 | Talks in Rome were reported on Feb. 1 to have been broken off at the end of January by the South African-backed rebel Mozambique National Resistance ( MNR or Renamo ) which accused the government of violating the ceasefire agreement signed on Dec. 1 . |
| 6 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 7 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 8 | The following steps are carried out at the planning stage : |
| 9 | Tests are carried out at the United States Department of Energy 's site in Nevada under the terms of the 1958 agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States . |
| 10 | Research projects on many topics are carried out at the CTVM , overseas , and elsewhere in the Edinburgh area and students and staff present their work at weekly seminars . |
| 11 | But you 've also got that that that you notice well down the erm the expenditure on a project , that you 're gon na have to have to go back and change something that should have been sorted out at the start . |
| 12 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 13 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 14 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 15 | ( There are also references in the body of the text , some of which are picked up at the end of the chapter . ) |
| 16 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 17 | He had come down to the Club that night with a real purpose , a purpose only half of which had been carried out at the meeting . |
| 18 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 19 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 20 | The draft timetable will have been decided on at the sale strategy stage and will be to an extent a function of the marketing process chosen . |
| 21 | ‘ The C & D category societies ( the smallest ) have picked up a lot of savings business by offering high interest rates , but that money has to be lent out and the sort of mortgage business they have been picking up at the rates they charge looks very doubtful to me . |
| 22 | MORE people are looking in at the local , if figures from West Country brewer Devenish are any guide . |
| 23 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
| 24 | Each line of script represents one second of running time and the words are written down at the normal speaking rate of three per second . |
| 25 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 26 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’ |
| 28 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 29 | I mean if you , you 're the burglar now and you 're planning to break in a house , and you 're looking around at the different houses and you 're trying to , one of the many things you 're trying to do is to establish whether they 're in or out . |
| 30 | Cos er , Mark last week said er , he 'd been approached by a wedding to do a disco , he said well I ca n't it 's a Saturday , and then he said well , you know , where are you having the reception , said well we 're looking round at the moment . |