Example sentences of "he was [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was up at the crack of dawn doing something unspeakable to the turkey , but the kids were up anyway . |
| 2 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 3 | It was Gre he was out at the Caithes and it blew up a a gale a Westerly gale and blew him across to Norway you see . |
| 4 | he was in at the beginning and he was er he was there at the end , sort of thing . |
| 5 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
| 6 | The following season he was back at the Festival as favourite for the Gold Cup , but soft going and the distance of three and a quarter miles proved his undoing , and he finished fifth . |
| 7 | Now he was back at the sharp end . |
| 8 | Very soon he was back at the Friar 's side . |
| 9 | Within half an hour he was back at the library . |
| 10 | On July 1st he was writing to say that he was back at the studio , and how delightful it was to be free of catheters , bougies , and syringes . |
| 11 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |
| 12 | But Gregory , he came down to the er to the base , and then I went out , you see and er er he he was back at the base whil whil whilst this was going on . |
| 13 | As Gilbert 's words faded , he was back at the Unit again , listening to the thing which had once been Dr Bissell as it said … |
| 14 | Behind his closed eyelids , he was back at the House of Mandru , surrounded by the dusky orange light of the exercise court . |
| 15 | He was back at the track to mark the donation of a quarter of a million pounds to refurbish the surface . |
| 16 | But five minutes into the film he was as possessed as when he was down at the football stadium watching a match . |
| 17 | We heard he was down at the station this morning . |
| 18 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |