Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
2 | I was n't at the official opening on 14 June but discovered it two days later . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | She was there at the departmental conference and he included her in the general nod and smile as he entered the executive producer 's office , but his eyes were guarded , and not just on her account . |
5 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
6 | It was her first appearance in a Willy Russell play so she was in at the deep end . |
7 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
8 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
9 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Ian Craig , the head of science and technology , said : ‘ It is educationally valuable to take boys to France or to the science museum , but the unique thing about this was that it was both at the same time , and that was more than twice as valuable . ’ |
13 | By then the couple had moved east to Chapman Street , part of the new housing development in the neighbourhood of St George 's in the East ; it was here at the nearby parish church that Benjamin was buried five days later , the ceremony being conducted by the rector . |
14 | it was on at a reasonable volume . |
15 | If it was also at the top line of the text window and scroll is enabled , the window scrolls down . |
16 | To get to 50°C energy may have been transferred to the system-assuming that it was previously at a lower temperature . |
17 | It was precisely at the same time as these processes , policies and institutions were being consolidated that the embryonic imperial regime found territorial expression for its increasing power in the colonial administration and economic exploitation of Siberia . |
18 | Support for the Greens may have shrunk but it was still at the same level as the Liberal Democrats ’ , the third party in Parliament , so perhaps Ms Cooke was unduly downcast . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | It was only at the last moment that the real or unreal nature of an escape project was finally determined . |
21 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
22 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
23 | It was therefore at the next Congress in August 1959 in Wiesbaden , Germany , that the BDDA participated for the first time as a member country with an official delegation of ten : Dr Eric Greenaway . |
24 | No he was , he was right at the very beginning of the school |
25 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
26 | But he was out at a coronary , I believe , and by the time he arrived the baby was born . ’ |
27 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
28 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |
29 | But he was still at an experimental stage of his thinking , and this enabled his political opportunism to come into play . |