Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps there was at some stage and I lost it . |
| 2 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 3 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 4 | Four moves later he was at another semi-resting place . |
| 5 | Now we were at 2,000 feet , the grasslands and such trees as there had been were below us . |
| 6 | Tom Tom Tom knows what it 's like cos last time I was up there yesterday Tom was and Chris Turner was up there and we went past an heap and it and we said is that a lorry-load and Dennis said , well it was at this morning . |
| 7 | Least they were at that time . |
| 8 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 9 | Indeed it was at this time that scientism really began to become important , not only in Britain but throughout western Europe , the USA , Russia and Japan . |
| 10 | Principally there were at that time other interested parties in the premises er and also erm Mr saw it as essential er that er they were in and running the business er well before the time of the Christmas trade which was rapidly approaching then , then it being late August and er he wanted to make sure that they were in in in time for them to be able to take advantage of those bookings that they anticipated . |
| 11 | Those of us who had been drawn towards Labour as a party of change now received a sharp reminder that whatever else it was at local level , it was at national level still essentially an electoral machine . |
| 12 | A talent scout heard him sing — actually it was at that performance at the Hall . |