Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] at the very " in BNC.

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1 But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down .
2 Mehrabad , as previously mentioned , was attacked at the very beginning of the war .
3 Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine .
4 This was seen at the very moment of James V 's death .
5 Restrop was built at the very height of the great Elizabethan age , when the craft of building began to turn into an art .
6 Mr Michael King , regional secretary for the association , said it would provide accommodation where it was needed at the very bottom of the housing ladder .
7 Nevertheless it is worth considering whether some implicit model of accountability underlies all forms of evaluation whatever their stated purposes ( an issue that was raised at the very beginning of Chapter 1 ) .
8 The other part was reeling at the very idea of Dane Jacobsen on the snowy slopes of Glenshee with her .
9 The " Baltic path " to emancipation — the landless variant — was discredited at the very time disagreements over the way forward were at their height .
10 The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’
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