Example sentences of "be at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're at the mercy of some pilot and God knows what state they 're in , ’ he added . |
| 2 | But of course it 's , it 's a very tough deal for women , I mean women in erm in a way really get the raw end of it because that to some extent they 're at the mercy of the whole system , even though they can if they absolutely have to . |
| 3 | He says you 're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you . |
| 4 | And you 're at the mercy of the landlord putting the rent up Brenda . |
| 5 | Like you say you 're at the mercy . |
| 6 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 7 | You 're at the door . |
| 8 | ‘ But I still do n't see why we 're at the centre of the Universe , ’ said Gedanken . |
| 9 | So they all think they 're at the centre of the Big Bang . ’ |
| 10 | For another thing , the region is one of the edge of things if I may so put it and that 's why I 'm down here I mean as , as I know when we 're up there we 're at the centre of things , but lots of people do n't |
| 11 | If you 're at the net , the motion is more like a punch , but it 's still there . |
| 12 | With you coming in , nobody knows they 're at the gate . |
| 13 | Suppose they 're at the bottom of the sea now . |
| 14 | It 's obviously best that he continues to believe you 're at the bottom of the Danube , or halfway to the Black Sea by now . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ People say to themselves : ‘ If we 're at the bottom , I 'd better get in now ’ ’ . |
| 16 | The last thing you need when you 're at the bottom of the table is to concede an early free kick but today Notts did just that . |
| 17 | but er , I do n't I , I obviously gone have a way of doing this , but erm , it 's difficult , if you , if you 're at the bottom of the |
| 18 | We 're at the bottom . |
| 19 | All we have shown is that ‘ when you 're at the bottom , the only way is up ’ . |
| 20 | There we are , we 're at the bottom . |
| 21 | West Ham take their chances , Oxford do n't , that 's why they 're at the bottom and teams like Sheffield and West Ham and Oldham are at the top . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're at the Admiral Benbow inn , Black Hill Cove , my good man , ’ I said . |
| 23 | D' you want me to read these out if you 're at the back ? |
| 24 | You 're at the School ? " |
| 25 | They 're at the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 26 | Then we 're at the desk and he leans over all cocky like and actually gets hold of my chin and says , ‘ Why so glum , my fair one ? ’ |
| 27 | We 're at the airport . |
| 28 | We 're at the base of a greystone railway viaduct . |
| 29 | I 'm sure someone like Graeme Souness at Liverpool feels like I do when our teams lose , but expectations change when you 're at the top compared to the bottom . |
| 30 | So the big the thing that 's providing everything , you take the petrol out , you wo n't go unless you 're at the top of a hill , of course because it can |