Example sentences of "were [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We were down at the main road .
2 Perhaps before this time the seas were not at the right temperature or did not have the chemical composition to favour the deposition of the lime from which most marine shells and skeletons are constructed .
3 The former detectives were not at the Old Bailey today , proceedings against them are over .
4 At the start of NEP experienced Bolsheviks were not at the editorial helm of central and especially local newspapers .
5 We continued climbing for a short while and were soon at the highest point of our walk .
6 The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace .
7 He and his officer rode at the head of their squadron , and were thus at the very tip of the advancing French army .
8 BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing .
9 Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land .
10 Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land .
11 Vegetable vitamin A , carotene , fell by 30 per cent , and both were now at the lower end of the normal range .
12 By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common .
13 Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution .
14 Once we were there at the same time .
15 The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it .
16 It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one .
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