Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teacher : If you were right at the top of the tower would the people down below you look like ? |
| 2 | Alan Clements , Trafalgar 's chairman , persistently repeated the company 's view that the accounts ‘ were right at the time they were published' , a view supported by David Jenkins , Touche 's partner in charge of the audit . |
| 3 | The they er even in the dining room you , you sort of , there were long tables , well when you came in as , as a student nurse you were right at the bottom of the table , and as you , you know , the second year , third year , fourth year , you gradually moved up and then the , the State Registered Nurses they all sat together . |
| 4 | They were right at the top when doorman Cecil barred their way . |
| 5 | However , the overall left-right balance within the Folketing remained virtually unaltered since the gains by the SD were mostly at the expense of the Socialist People 's Party ( SF ) on the left , and the losses of the coalition parties were balanced by gains of 4.0 per cent and seven seats by the Liberals ( Venstre — Lib . ) . |
| 6 | A lrge percentage of the parachutes used by British airborne servicemen were inside at the time and destroyed at a cost of more than nineteen million pounds . |
| 7 | For example , recall that when anyone aged thirty today was born , computers were rare ; the standard equipment in all offices was a manual typewriter ; jumbo jets were only at the development stage ; transatlantic phone calls went by cable , not satellite ; and television was virtually unseen outside the developed world . |
| 8 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
| 9 | He sighed , ‘ Maria Luisa had spoken to Fernando and you were together at the Casa Pinar and I thought everything was hunky-dory — ’ |
| 10 | If you find it hard to stick to a diet , try keeping a diary for a week where you record what you 've eaten and when , how hungry you were and what sort of mood you were in at the time . |
| 11 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 12 | This is so irrespective of whose possession the goods were in at the time . |
| 13 | Dear , they were down at the Paradise the other night … looks serious . ’ |
| 14 | In one of her favourites , she and Simon were down at the Lock , picnicking on one of the half-buried concrete blocks . |
| 15 | We were down at the main road . |
| 16 | ‘ Southampton were down at the bottom , but they rolled up their sleeves , put a run together and that 's what we now have to do . |
| 17 | Attendances were down at the North West Rally in Cheadle but it was an excellent day , and everyone enjoyed Jean Parmiter 's teacher . |
| 18 | Some children were sent to widowed grandmothers to live with them for company , or just sleep a few nights , like the seaman 's daughter on the Western Isles who , when all the men were away at the fishing , ‘ used to sleep with granny … bringing the water from the well and bringing in the peat , tidying up the floor and singing songs , for granny she was a very musical lady , yes she was . ’ |
| 19 | I would have liked to specialise in classics or literature , but the teachers of these two subjects were away at the war , so it was necessary to take up mathematics which the headmaster himself taught . |
| 20 | Women whose men were away at the war were still having babies . |
| 21 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 22 | Both of them were away at the moment , and so it seemed particularly peaceful this morning . |
| 23 | Both Mike and I were away at the time . |
| 24 | I have n't seen him , I , I think they were away at the weekend |
| 25 | ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley . |
| 26 | We were not at the end . |
| 27 | At the start of NEP experienced Bolsheviks were not at the editorial helm of central and especially local newspapers . |
| 28 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 29 | The drugs in these areas were not at the frontier of medical science and acceptable generic drugs existed . |
| 30 | Perhaps before this time the seas were not at the right temperature or did not have the chemical composition to favour the deposition of the lime from which most marine shells and skeletons are constructed . |