Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were down at the main road . |
| 2 | Perhaps before this time the seas were not at the right temperature or did not have the chemical composition to favour the deposition of the lime from which most marine shells and skeletons are constructed . |
| 3 | At the start of NEP experienced Bolsheviks were not at the editorial helm of central and especially local newspapers . |
| 4 | We continued climbing for a short while and were soon at the highest point of our walk . |
| 5 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 6 | He and his officer rode at the head of their squadron , and were thus at the very tip of the advancing French army . |
| 7 | He declined , however , to specify what type of vehicle production was being considered and said the discussions were still at a preliminary stage . |
| 8 | BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing . |
| 9 | These variations would have been impossible to rectify without buying expensive new printing machines , unthinkable , as home furnishings were still at an experimental stage in England . |
| 10 | Each night the teachers had to take turns checking that the students were in their dormitories , and the lights were out at an appropriate time . |
| 11 | We were now at a crucial point in the training . |
| 12 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 13 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 14 | Vegetable vitamin A , carotene , fell by 30 per cent , and both were now at the lower end of the normal range . |
| 15 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 16 | Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution . |
| 17 | Once we were there at the same time . |
| 18 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 19 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 20 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 21 | No he was , he was right at the very beginning of the school |
| 22 | And , despite what many people say , it was nt while delivering the cross for Sniffers goal — it was right at the very end of 90mins … so noone came on for him when he injured his ELBOW . |
| 23 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
| 24 | Oh well Morse was on at the same time . |
| 25 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 26 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
| 27 | and all our shopping was down at the Old Town , you had to go down this lane to the Old Town if you wanted a stamp |
| 28 | Until then I had succeeded in holding the impinging world at bay as well as in the desperate attempt to establish my own identity , but it was only at a bitter cost to myself . |
| 29 | Cable & Wireless said the transaction was only at a preliminary stage but the talks were taking place on the basis of Hong Kong Telecom 's average price last month . |
| 30 | It was only at the last moment that the real or unreal nature of an escape project was finally determined . |