Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julian Charley , to Edward England , my publisher , and to St. John 's College , Nottingham , where I was at that time principal , and by whose Governors I had been given study leave in order to write the book . |
| 2 | Richard come back where you were at this side . |
| 3 | A steady eighty miles an hour and where it was at these times . |
| 4 | That was John Russell , no older than I was at twenty-one and no more Apache than I was . |
| 5 | Not , she told herself , that she was at all interested in Benedict Beckenham , except in so far as he fitted into this household . |
| 6 | Her pack slapped against her back as she jumped down beside Defries , reminding her that she was at last running out of supplies : there had been few explosives on the shuttle . |
| 7 | It 's common knowledge that you were at that dinner with me . |
| 8 | I heard him tell Fagin that you were at this hotel . |
| 9 | The important thing is that you 'll be more confident and able to cope at , say , 21 than you were at 16 . |
| 10 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 11 | It seems probable that elderly people as a whole have more secure incomes and are less marginalized as consumers today than they were at earlier times in this century . |
| 12 | Only two per cent said that they were at all dissatisfied with the arrangement : to put this in perspective , about ten per cent of buyers ( credit or cash ) were prepared to admit to being dissatisfied in some way with the goods they had bought . |
| 13 | Most companies said they used the results as research , although a few said they advised workers that they were at higher risk in certain jobs than others . |
| 14 | The witness concerned should explain that he had a good unobstructed view of the traffic lights and that they were at red when the vehicle or part of it passed them . |
| 15 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 16 | Several times they crossed paths that led into the forest but it was not until another hour had passed and the moon was paling in the light of the false dawn that they were at last among strange scattered rocks like those which strewed the fringe of the forest where they had first entered the Waste . |
| 17 | They felt that through joining the movement they had been liberated from the ills of modern society and that they were at last free to make the world a better place and themselves better people . |
| 18 | Assessment of capital very much influenced that , and it was ‘ of the highest importance ’ that it was at all times a proper influence . |
| 19 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
| 20 | As one example , we know that it was at this time that he took the opportunity to fill the vacant see of York since the canons were present and thus he could postulate and consecrate Walter Gray . |
| 21 | But yes , erm it , it 's partly sediment brought down from inland , it 's also the fact that you have offshore of Rye the area of Winchelsea Beach and so-called Rye Harbour which is somewhat detached from the town of Rye , and there 's been an enormous accumulation of shingle there , so that the Castle , which was built in , that 's Camber Castle which was built in the reign of Henry the Eighth , since that time the shoreline at Winchelsea Beach , as a result of the accumulation of shingle , has moved in excess of one point five kilometres seaward of that point , and so obviously erm Rye is now much further inland than it was at that time . |
| 22 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 23 | This did not mean that he was at all sympathetic to evolutionary ideas , which seemed crude and mechanical ; but he was not patient either with ‘ Bridgewater writing ’ , because it meant seeing the hand of God more in some things than others . |
| 24 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 25 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 26 | His back and neck injuries , for instance , have left him three-quarters of an inch shorter than he was at 21 . |
| 27 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 28 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 29 | I 'm far too tired , even if I were at all tempted . |
| 30 | ‘ My friends were n't going to take any nonsense from me and if I was at all |