Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It attracted me like a magnet when I was a youth , and soon as I could leave school I was up at the course for a caddying job . |
| 2 | ‘ I was up at the Grange last night treating ingrowing toenails . |
| 3 | for October , I think , when I was up at the hospital and it was down not I was below . |
| 4 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 5 | the structured thought patterns I found that the most important because when I was up at the table on the second presentation I was able to have my thoughts relating to the layout already and with in fact just the single element of the subject shown on my paper I could immediately focus on that and in fact give the details of that right the way through . |
| 6 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 7 | I was on at the time , I had my period . |
| 8 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 9 | ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself . |
| 10 | Sophie , Pascoe thought — phoning when I was out at the cove trying to tempt that bastard out of hiding . |
| 11 | Yeah there was five women and dad was away and I was out at the fishing just for the night . |
| 12 | I think I would have to give the biscuit to him because one day I was down at the bankruptcy court and I discovered that he had 130 petitions on the file and I do n't think mine reached 100 ! |
| 13 | Then I was down at the Chough last night and everyone was on about it . |
| 14 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 15 | I was down at the library today . |
| 16 | In a few quick strides I was back at the bend , and was just in time to see a movement in the bushes on the lower side of the track . |
| 17 | She was up at the window looking out . |
| 18 | It seemed she was up at the Jubilee Tower practising the tango with Nigel and they would be down shortly with the papers . |
| 19 | He smiled at her again later when she was up at the bar ordering a second round for her and Natasha , as he and his friends were standing further along the bar . |
| 20 | Today she was up at the crack of dawn , 4.30 , to make breakfast for her man friend . |
| 21 | ‘ No , but she says she was round at the local . |
| 22 | Perhaps her greatest defiance , the extravagant music centre she had ordered from the junk mail , arrived when she was out at the restaurant . |
| 23 | She was down at the scene of the picket . |
| 24 | She was back at the curtains again . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's time she was back at the hospital . ’ |
| 26 | She was back at the hotel by 7.45 . |
| 27 | Three hours later she was back at the rendezvous but there was no sign of the canoe , only the sound of surf breaking on the beach two miles away . |
| 28 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
| 29 | She was back at the desk when he stood up , stretched elaborately , and said : ‘ Guess I 'll get myself a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 30 | In her mind , she was back at the flat in rue Roland , a jumble of bloodstained sheets confronting her . |