Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | he was in at the beginning and he was er he was there at the end , sort of thing . |
| 32 | The housing charity , Shelter , was in at the beginning of the Housing Advice Centre movement and the Child poverty Action Group has been extremely active in the field of welfare rights . |
| 33 | We held a referendum on Britain 's membership of the Community in order to extract the Labour party from the difficulty that it was in at the time . |
| 34 | ‘ The state I was in at the time I 'd have wanted to murder him myself . |
| 35 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 36 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 37 | Phil Browitt , C&P 's Distribution Services Manager , was in at the start : |
| 38 | Sarah was down at the nick this morning . ’ |
| 39 | I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know . |
| 40 | 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 ! |
| 41 | Then I was down at the Chough last night and everyone was on about it . |
| 42 | She was down at the scene of the picket . |
| 43 | The blind was down at the window . |
| 44 | We heard he was down at the station this morning . |
| 45 | But five minutes into the film he was as possessed as when he was down at the football stadium watching a match . |
| 46 | So who was down at the bus on her own ? |
| 47 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
| 48 | I was down at the library today . |
| 49 | ‘ There was a bar in town , it was down at the end of the main street , right where the buildings ended and the scrub began . |
| 50 | Nicol had betaken himself to his due place among the servants , and Tutilo , silent and self-effacing among such distinguished company , was down at the end among the clerks and chaplains , and wary of opening his mouth even there . |
| 51 | On the way home she made a detour to pick wild flowers for her mother , who was down at the harbour gutting pilchards and would be late back . |
| 52 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 53 | It was down at the harbour in Belfast . |
| 54 | Caitlin was off at the BBC studios , he was appearing on Crimewatch later in the evening . |
| 55 | ‘ I was up at the Grange last night treating ingrowing toenails . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | She was up at the window looking out . |
| 60 | That wee dog was up at the park this morning |