Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 2 | To bring the Crown out of the poverty and debt which had marked most of the reign of Henry VI , both Edward IV and Richard III used professional receivers , auditors , and surveyors to increase the revenue from Crown lands ; and much of this larger income was paid , neither to the Exchequer nor to the Crown 's creditors , but to the Chamber of the royal Household , where it was at the disposal of the King . |
| 3 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 4 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 5 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 6 | He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his . |
| 7 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 8 | UK consumption is around a third lower than it was at the beginning of this century . |
| 9 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 10 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 11 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 12 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |
| 13 | This still means that the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes is now 50% higher than it was at the start of 1991 . |
| 14 | Moreover , capacity utilization was considerably lower when the previous upswing had begun than it was at the start of the mini-boom of 1972–3 . |
| 15 | Once he was at the front it was plain sailing for the Pagid UK sponsored Vauxhall driver , who finished four seconds clear . |
| 16 | I felt as if I was at the end of a long tunnel where someone was kicking my legs . |
| 17 | He was sitting in the bar with a drink and the evening paper when she came down , and though he appeared not to notice her quiet descent until she was at the foot of the stairs , she had seen him shift his weight some seconds before he looked up , ready to spring to his feet and intercept her . |
| 18 | She let him pass her , fifty yards to the east ; the temptation to shout was wrong but she waited until he was at the hedge . |
| 19 | If it was at the bottom where it 's flat , where you just , you 're just coming down , and then you started to go up again , just at the bottom there , it 's , it 's zero for |
| 20 | They had enquired if he was at the pottery and been told that he was not . |
| 21 | His dad was Mickey who keeps goal for Colchester United , I do n't know if he was at the match , but he was , er had a very good game . |
| 22 | If he was at the County ground a penalty probably would n't have been given , but there was no arguing about Andy Hinchcliffe 's finishing . |
| 23 | I 've brought him , I 've brought him at half five , because I was at the bus stop , leaning on the lamp-post and it was about twenty five past , and then he did n't come along to the next stop by and it got to twenty five |
| 24 | I could just hear because I was at the front of the class . |
| 25 | Brinson could cope with the work only because he was at the Foundation , where people could see him , which had concerns close to those of the CNAA , and which allowed him time to take part . |
| 26 | Marius Steen was in London certainly on the Saturday night , because he was at the Sex of One … party . |
| 27 | He often put his pupils off from tutorials because he was at the television studios , smilingly outlining rather shocking views about constitutional history , and the role of the trade unions . |
| 28 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 29 | So everyone called it Druid 's Bottom because it was at the bottom of the Grove . ’ |
| 30 | actually caught with , I think he was just starting on that when Mike come down , er but , he got it out this magazine rack because it was at the back of there I put it , cos it 's this year 's the others I 've got upstairs in a drawer |