Example sentences of "i [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 .
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