Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 Susan giggled when the two lads were up at the bar .
2 In one of her favourites , she and Simon were down at the Lock , picnicking on one of the half-buried concrete blocks .
3 By Monday evening the Wycliffes were back at The Watch House , their home outside the city where he had his headquarters , and on Tuesday morning he was in his office .
4 This is so irrespective of whose possession the goods were in at the time .
5 But any flowers there might have been in the garden would probably have been eaten by the resident goats , rabbits and God-knows-whatever-else were around at the time , for the kind-hearted Edwardses never turned any sick or homeless creature away .
6 The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter .
7 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 .
8 Attendances were down at the North West Rally in Cheadle but it was an excellent day , and everyone enjoyed Jean Parmiter 's teacher .
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