Example sentences of "was [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker . |
| 2 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 3 | It was right at the back of her mind but she could n't get it out . |
| 4 | He shot him when he was right at the top . ’ |
| 5 | Victor Zenobia 's was right at the top . |
| 6 | And it was right at the beginning when the demon took over … |
| 7 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 8 | I was n't going for his agreement or anyone else 's agreement — I was going for what I felt was right at the time , and as he 'd set me up as this person in his life , I advised him not to do it . |
| 9 | We may agree with Cole 's conclusion that the resolution of the debate in favour of Consumers ' control was right at the time , but on ground of practical necessity . |
| 10 | Sometimes there would be an extra pause that was n't scripted , but which he felt was right at the time . |
| 11 | However , I can debate with anyone and at any stage that Gibson was right at the time for the Dams . |
| 12 | A rescue attempt had hitherto been so far at the back of his mind that , if some advanced speculations on the nature and shape of the many-dimensioned multiplexity of the universe were correct , it was right at the front ; but a magic sword was a valuable item … |
| 13 | My own mob was right at the front of the fuss : we did n't want any more secret organisations on our patch . ’ |
| 14 | We got , I was right at the front in the balcony . |
| 15 | ‘ He was right at the end , ’ admits Marjorie Gedge . |
| 16 | It was right at the end of the main hunting season , and we had already watched as a group of males had twice unsuccessfully hunted the same group of colobus monkeys that day . |
| 17 | Our carriage was at the front of the train so that when she got out she was right at the end of the platform beyond the canopy with its wooden fretwork coping , in the middle of fields . |
| 18 | Chelsea 's only goal was right at the end . |
| 19 | She was right at the end when , without warning , she ran full tilt into the arms of the waiting figure . |
| 20 | Seeing the young woman hunched up on a crate , covered in chalk dust and weeping her eyes out , Biff Thacker was rather at a loss what to do . |
| 21 | ‘ And then — I was rather at a loss , I suppose . |
| 22 | The truth was somewhere at the end of the line and the first facts were a kind of starting point . |
| 23 | Evidently he had been expecting Hazel to speak first and was somewhat at a loss . |
| 24 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 25 | Still , the return of Olaf 's son Magnus to Norway , and expulsion of Ælfgifu of Northampton and her son , lay in the future in 1030 , when Cnut was perhaps at the zenith of his power . |
| 26 | We was together at the village concert . |
| 27 | She was constantly at the telex machine , her old wartime training coming into its own , and was more adept than those the company hired as telex operators . |
| 28 | Tawney , on the occasion of the celebrations of the District 's twenty-first anniversary in June 1934 , perceptively recognised that the District ‘ … was only at the beginning of their task … ’ but was perhaps a little wide of the mark in claiming that the ‘ … |
| 29 | It was only at the beginning of July that she was again taken ill . |
| 30 | Colwyn Bay nurse , Mabel Roberts , who was only at the party by chance , died after jumping more than 40ft from the flat . |