Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 Instead of the fairway he found the edge of the rough several times , and his irons were not flying straight at the flag .
2 ‘ Country properties were not selling well at the time .
3 We were not playing well at the start and many of my players were tired after Great Britain 's tour in the summer .
4 Erm , in we were not sitting here at the end of our , how many years is it now , thirteen , fourteen years .
5 It 'd got to the stage where the workforce were not gon na talk to the management on a an official level , you know we were still talking informally at the picket line and , you know still trying to be helpful and offer our advice on what could be done to solve the dispute .
6 The shop bell had tinkled frequently for the past hour , most of the customers having been the ha'penny and penny ones , some of whom were now standing outside at the shop window oohing and aahing at the Christmas goodies displayed there , all entwined with coloured streamers and illuminated by the two gas lamps attached to the side wall of the shop and plopping inside their pretty pink glass globes , while casting a rosy light overall , even over the small faces pressed against the window .
7 ‘ By the mid-Fifties , ’ said Heston , ‘ That was all coming apart at the seams .
8 And I said , well I know nothing about that kind of music but that 's the impression I got , I was just stood there at the bar thinking that last , last Friday it 's not the same one , thinking , you know , this is just this is just very samey it
9 He said the province had always lost out because it was not represented effectively at the Council of Ministers — where Government Ministers argue the case for funding .
10 Money is another factor diverting doctors from a career in research , although it was not discussed much at the conference .
11 However , as the need for this particular type of system was not believed to be acute , it was not pursued further at the time .
12 I understand that the signalling and axle counter system , which is used to detect the location of trains in the tunnel , was not working normally at the time .
13 When he arrived at the shop , Oliver was still kicking wildly at the cellar door .
14 At press time Sun was still chipping away at the price of the Tsunami Classic , so named because Sun expects it to become the standard by which all others are judged .
15 Fabia was still staring witlessly at the door after he had quietly closed it behind him .
16 The precise location of the squamous columnar mucosal junction , measured in centimetres from the incisors , was carefully defined both at the beginning and at the end of the endoscopy .
17 When the academies opened their doors to women in 1919 the association changed its curriculum to offer preparatory courses , the drawing teachers ' course was closed and for a while they placed emphasis on the trade-oriented forms , like book-binding which was also started later at the state school .
18 He had turned to fly around the eastern edge of the island 's encircling reefs and was now staring intently at the houses , searching for any signs of danger , but it seemed as though Murder Cay was deserted .
19 By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years .
20 In the 690s Aethelred granted land in Hwiccian territory to Oftfor , bishop of Worcester , seemingly without reference to any local prince ( CS 76 : S 76 ; CS 75 : S 77 ) ; Aethelbald was certainly doing so at the beginning of his reign in 716–7 ( CS 137 : S 102 ) .
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