Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Margaret Thatcher 's time — he wished that she were still at the helm — the party could always look forward to a damn good Leader 's speech on the last afternoon . |
| 2 | She was upstairs at once to tell Mary what had happened , though I do n't suppose Mary paid her much heed . |
| 3 | ( She was probably at Bourges . ) |
| 4 | She was up at the window looking out . |
| 5 | It seemed she was up at the Jubilee Tower practising the tango with Nigel and they would be down shortly with the papers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well , I thought nothing of it , because she 's always palled up with a lot of English chaps since she was up at St Andrews and there was the odd Michael among them . |
| 8 | Today she was up at the crack of dawn , 4.30 , to make breakfast for her man friend . |
| 9 | She was up at er what do you call , no yesterday , and she , you know she goes to the clinic then , |
| 10 | Next morning she was up at seven . |
| 11 | Well Annette said when she was up at but |
| 12 | She was n't at all good at concealing how worried she was for his safety . |
| 13 | She was n't at all enthusiastic . |
| 14 | She was n't at all shocked at the thought . |
| 15 | She was n't at all defensive . |
| 16 | Whatever else Liza Tremayne was or was n't , she was n't at all like Eleanor Fuller . |
| 17 | Mrs Robert MacDonald , of Glasgow , though where in Glasgow she was n't at all sure . |
| 18 | In the first place she was n't at all sure what she was going to see . |
| 19 | She was n't at all sure she could cope with him and a band of strangers , all the way to Titan , through the depths of hyperspace where there 's no escape from your companions . |
| 20 | However , when he placed a bowl of potatoes on the table in front of her , and gave her a peeling knife , she was n't at all pleased . |
| 21 | She was n't at all sure they were happy . |
| 22 | Could n't have been , because she was n't at home . |
| 23 | She was n't at all surprised , though , when Stephen spoke to her after a long telephone conversation with Robert Leyton , later that evening . |
| 24 | She was n't at all nervous now . |
| 25 | She was n't at all sure she liked the sound of that . |
| 26 | Meredith hastily curbed her natural friendliness , reminding herself that she was n't at home now , gossiping to strangers and leaping into any car that came down the lane . |
| 27 | But when she took a necessary short cut through the kitchen , she was n't at all surprised to find that the figure filling the doorway with a tray of drinks balanced in his hands was Tom . |
| 28 | She told herself firmly that he did not suspect a thing , but he suddenly slanted a brilliant glance across at her and she was n't at all sure what he thought . |
| 29 | When he looked at her like that she was n't at all sure that this was in any way a ‘ soft ’ assignment . |
| 30 | She raised her own brows in slightly disdainful surprise , trying to make it clear she was n't at all interested in getting to know this beautiful stranger . |