Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what were you up at lunchtime then ? |
| 2 | Were you up at the garage ? |
| 3 | What time were you up at ? |
| 4 | Were you here at Christmas ? |
| 5 | Were you ever at the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford ? ’ |
| 6 | How long wer were you actually at then ? |
| 7 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 8 | Nor were they altogether at ease in the neighbourhood , for though there was no reason to suppose that the verderers would return in search of them after their escape — after all why should they suppose the children would return to the very spot where they had been captured ? — the shock of the moment when Michael 's voice had spoken to them out of the darkness still hung about the place . |
| 9 | To be honest , at the time I really needed to be dropped but there was no-one else at the club ready to take over . |
| 10 | Fortunately the holidays had begun and there was no-one about at the time . |
| 11 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 12 | And then the shadows moved again , and Lugh could see that there was nothing there at all , and that he was nearer now to Tara than he had thought , and after all it had only been a trick of the light . |
| 13 | If it 's the latter then there was plenty more at the show to warm any enthusiast 's heart . |
| 14 | I mean there was nobody there at all . |
| 15 | Was she there at ballet ? |
| 16 | As a matter of fact , when I 'm talking about , let me see er fifty years ago , there was one up at every back yard , that 's the truth . |
| 17 | Making up her mind , she said fiercely , ‘ It was him up at the manor . |
| 18 | And why was he there at all ? |
| 19 | Why was it here at all ? |
| 20 | Was it right at the end of a distinguished public servant 's long career to reduce him to such misery ? |
| 21 | Was it always at night they went ? |
| 22 | I knew that if there was anyone else at all in the building , they 'd be alerted to it . |