Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was making her feel a bit strange again with his hand on her skin and she was at a decided disadvantage . |
| 2 | They had drifted into a brief alliance now because she was out of work and he was at a loose end emotionally , but it had not worked . |
| 3 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 4 | It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity . |
| 5 | And I ha I was n't very familiar with Nottingham , then , but I went and erm we crossed this park , and it was at a big house , there , tailors were always in rather out of the way places , and er he 'd just got fixed up . |
| 6 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 7 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 8 | But when I actually erm got into the social work side of it , and i saw what the needs there were , erm and it was at the particular time too when you know , lots of teachers were sort of being made redundant , or at at least the er the numbers in schools were n't so high . |