Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] at the [noun] " 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 | They were right at the top when doorman Cecil barred their way . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | Attendances were down at the North West Rally in Cheadle but it was an excellent day , and everyone enjoyed Jean Parmiter 's teacher . |
| 14 | Dear , they were down at the Paradise the other night … looks serious . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | In one of her favourites , she and Simon were down at the Lock , picnicking on one of the half-buried concrete blocks . |
| 17 | I have n't seen him , I , I think they were away at the weekend |
| 18 | Both Mike and I were away at the time . |
| 19 | Both of them were away at the moment , and so it seemed particularly peaceful this morning . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Women whose men were away at the war were still having babies . |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I saw your husband come into the tent while you were over at the tombola , ’ Mrs Doran said to Mrs Yardley . |
| 25 | But statistics were not at the heart of the thing except for the occasional schoolboy or zealot . |
| 26 | We were not at the end . |
| 27 | If you were not at the June meeting , your list is now enclosed for your attention . |
| 28 | The drugs in these areas were not at the frontier of medical science and acceptable generic drugs existed . |
| 29 | As far as I know , the all the people who voted er for the amendment , will continue to do so and a great many of of those who voted against it and were quite unaw were not at the time a fully aware of what is proposed , er may well change their mind . |
| 30 | I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish . |