Example sentences of "[pers pn] was at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Born in 1864 , she was at one time wooed by the future Kaiser William but instead married the Russian Grand Duke Sergei , assassinated by anarchists in 1905 . |
| 32 | ‘ She was at that cocktail party the Sheldonians gave — do n't you remember ? — when we were staying with Mother the summer before last . ’ |
| 33 | I bet she was at that price . |
| 34 | She was at that age . |
| 35 | I ca n't begin to say how supportive she was at that time . ’ |
| 36 | I was thinking about Conrie Fraser and wondering where she was at that moment . |
| 37 | In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse , but he did not know that . |
| 38 | She was at first sight a cheerful figure , a plump woman of 65 who wore a brightly patterned dress and whose curly hair showed around the front of her white scarf . |
| 39 | Now the old problem arose again : she found herself in new places and she was more interested in exploring them thoroughly than she was in the chick , even though she was at flying weight . |
| 40 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 41 | She was at this time a large , middle-aged woman whose name I shall not mention . |
| 42 | You know that she read archeology by correspondence when she was at finishing school . |
| 43 | She was at senior school by this time , of course , and the senior mistress sent for her , sat her down and began to question her kindly about conditions at home . |
| 44 | In reconstructing the circumstances of the crash , the Mexican investigators concluded that the Falcon was actually 40 miles further away from ACA VOR than it had reported — i.e. , it was at 75 nmi when the pilot reported 35 nmi . |
| 45 | In other words , it had to be accurate in every tiny detail and to look as if it was at first glance . |
| 46 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 47 | He wanted to do more than just look ; it was at such times that he felt the urge to paint . |
| 48 | But , like its relatives in Devon , the Sussex has remained largely confined to its own region in spite of its potential , though it was at one time more widely used in several English counties as a draught animal . |
| 49 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 50 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 51 | Certainly , it was at one time essential for certain musical movements to be of a precise length , for otherwise the dancers of gavottes and minuets would find themselves in sorry confusion . |
| 52 | Indeed it was at one time believed that the advent of the railways had signalled the end of the movement of live meat . |
| 53 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 54 | I 'm sure it was at one time . |
| 55 | It was at one period customary , where a town was the centre of the see of a bishop and where in consequence there was a cathedral , to classify the town as a city . |
| 56 | It was at that level that a thread of continuity linked Charles with his Capetian successors , and his realm with later medieval France . |
| 57 | It was then that she and Madeleine saw each other : and it was at that instant that their military training served them well . |
| 58 | A talent scout heard him sing — actually it was at that performance at the Hall . |
| 59 | shut up , when it was at that end my head started at ? |
| 60 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |