Example sentences of "was [adv] at [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 2 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |
| 3 | It was right at the back of her mind but she could n't get it out . |
| 4 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 5 | However , I can debate with anyone and at any stage that Gibson was right at the time for the Dams . |
| 6 | My own mob was right at the front of the fuss : we did n't want any more secret organisations on our patch . ’ |
| 7 | We got , I was right at the front in the balcony . |
| 8 | It was right at the end of the main hunting season , and we had already watched as a group of males had twice unsuccessfully hunted the same group of colobus monkeys that day . |
| 9 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 10 | The truth was somewhere at the end of the line and the first facts were a kind of starting point . |
| 11 | The housing charity , Shelter , was in at the beginning of the Housing Advice Centre movement and the Child poverty Action Group has been extremely active in the field of welfare rights . |
| 12 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 13 | Still , the return of Olaf 's son Magnus to Norway , and expulsion of Ælfgifu of Northampton and her son , lay in the future in 1030 , when Cnut was perhaps at the zenith of his power . |
| 14 | She was down at the scene of the picket . |
| 15 | So who was down at the bus on her own ? |
| 16 | ‘ There was a bar in town , it was down at the end of the main street , right where the buildings ended and the scrub began . |
| 17 | Nicol had betaken himself to his due place among the servants , and Tutilo , silent and self-effacing among such distinguished company , was down at the end among the clerks and chaplains , and wary of opening his mouth even there . |
| 18 | It was down at the harbour in Belfast . |
| 19 | Tawney , on the occasion of the celebrations of the District 's twenty-first anniversary in June 1934 , perceptively recognised that the District ‘ … was only at the beginning of their task … ’ but was perhaps a little wide of the mark in claiming that the ‘ … |
| 20 | It was only at the beginning of July that she was again taken ill . |
| 21 | Colwyn Bay nurse , Mabel Roberts , who was only at the party by chance , died after jumping more than 40ft from the flat . |
| 22 | For all the concern over the level of public spending the British share as a proportion of GDP in 1979 was only at the mid-point of most western states . |
| 23 | We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened . |
| 24 | The EEC was attempting to do within its transition stage of fifteen years what Benelux did in three : and yet it was only at the end of its transitional period that Benelux had had to face up to serious difficulties in seeking to achieve its ambitions . |
| 25 | It was only at the end of McKerrows long tenure in 1940 that the Review was taken over by the Oxford Press . |
| 26 | A company that had always been paranoiac about labour unions , it should have noticed that it was suddenly at the mercy of customers ' unions . |
| 27 | He was thus at the head of the rule of the squires . |
| 28 | He served as chairman in 1769 , 1770 , and 1772 , and was thus at the centre of public attention at a crucial stage in Anglo-Asian relations . |
| 29 | Although about one fifth of EEC workers were in agriculture in 1958 , it was largely at the insistence of France that the Common Agricultural Policy ( CAP ) came into being . |
| 30 | It would have been possible simply to have overflowed into the additional accommodation for , as we have seen , space was already at a premium in the old premises . |