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

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1 Besides , he wrote , now that I am at last working on the big glass and have set up the two panels and locked them into their metal frame , notions like success and failure are no longer pertinent , there is only the project and its outcome , project , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , outcome , and words like success and failure can safely be left to others , wrote Harsnet .
2 It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here .
3 In the end I contacted my good friend Tom Poulton of the Tropical Marine Centre , Exeter , on the basis that I am at least a customer of his , albeit mainly for fish rather than equipment .
4 I think perhaps that I am at least partly forgiven . ’
5 I only wish that my father could know that I 'm at last setting up on my own …
6 Is she really like like isolated now that I 'm at boarding school really
7 A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda .
8 During the time that I was at MainMan , David had become more and more removed from us , but I figured that that was because he was so busy and that was the way it was when you had become a big star .
9 A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo .
10 I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley .
11 ‘ I was so far on side the decision was a joke , ’ said Hazard , adding : ‘ The TV people told me after watching a replay that I was at least two yards on side . ’
12 Did I tell you that I was at Belsen just after it was liberated ? ’
13 Er I might also say , on open access which is something that I was at a meeting for yesterday in London .
14 Nevertheless , I was always thankful that I was at Magdalen , perhaps the most beautiful of Oxford colleges .
15 Does n't that mean that I was at least a little sober ?
16 When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things .
17 My one solace is that I was at your side .
18 ‘ I rather think ’ Mr Nightingale said ‘ that I was at school with your uncle C. A. Harbinger .
19 Oh well it was not a meeting that I was at then
20 Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee .
21 I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ?
22 The Bank of England , old nanny that she is at heart , always believes that it is good for her charges to learn patience .
23 And Violet Hunt , loyally selling copies at half-price in her drawing room , confesses in her memoir I Have This to Say that she was at a loss to explain why the damned were damned , and the blest were blest .
24 She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful .
25 At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life .
26 And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return .
27 Naturally nobody would have made this distinction at the time and certainly Julian and all her friends thought that she was at death 's door .
28 The old woman stared at him and her eyes were bright and piercing and the silver thimble had fallen to the lap of her dress , and her fists were clenched now as if she searched for a memory , and her husband watched her anxiously as if he witnessed that she was at war within herself .
29 Her pack slapped against her back as she jumped down beside Defries , reminding her that she was at last running out of supplies : there had been few explosives on the shuttle .
30 He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth .
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