Example sentences of "was [not/n't] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know the end , and I know the end , now we know what happened , now we know what I should have done … but I was not at the end of the movie , I was in the middle of the movie and I did n't know the ending . ’ |
| 2 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 3 | We arrived very late and , through some misunderstanding , Gilbert was not at the station to meet us . |
| 4 | I was not at the bottom of a cliff but at the top , looking down across another dusty plain four hundred feet below . |
| 5 | Because the local representative of Burra and Trondra was not at the February meeting , the matter was deferred until March , when again the councillor for the area failed to attend , resulting in yet another deferral . |
| 6 | Primaflora was not at the villa . |
| 7 | Another surprise of the evening was that Anne 's groom-to-be Commander Tim Laurence was not at the dinner . |
| 8 | One lad , belonging to a respected family , had been given a long sentence although he and local residents emphatically maintained that he was not at the scene of the incident for which he was convicted . |
| 9 | It was also the first time that her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi , Allen 's new lover , was not at the traditional family meal . |
| 10 | We now readily accept that Mr O'Connor was not at the theatre on the night in question and that no backstage ‘ bust-up ’ took place , as we had suggested . |
| 11 | This gave continuity to the English connection with India , but by the middle of the century India was not at the centre of English overseas activity . |
| 12 | Mr Sugar was not at the house yesterday but it is believed his wife , Ann , was at home as a woman had driven a sports car into the grounds earlier , which bore the registration 1 AS . |
| 13 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 14 | Burun was not at the head of the placings . |
| 15 | Turnaround Distribution was not at the fair ; neither was the Women 's Press , nor GMP . |
| 16 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
| 17 | But Dr Greenslade was not at the Easter Fete . |
| 18 | But it was not at the button-hole that Leon was looking . |
| 19 | Secondly , the machine was not at the time of the contract in a deliverable state , since it still had to be removed from the concrete emplacement . |
| 20 | However , the principle of Sunday trading was not at the heart of the judgment . |
| 21 | Crawford was not at the hearing ; he was at the London Palladium , rehearsing for a Royal Variety Performance . |
| 22 | Norwich 's growth was not at the expense of its rural hinterland , however , for the surrounding villages grew as well . |
| 23 | ’ Now he wanted to know why I was n't at the point . |
| 24 | I 'm glad he was n't at the dress-run last night when , in my most imperious Dame Edith voice , I commanded , ‘ Send for Hedward the Hugly ! ’ and Edward the Ugly fell off the stage laughing . |
| 25 | He was immediately enthralled : ‘ I do n't think there was a moment after that … when the wish to work at the House of Commons was n't at the back of my mind . ’ |
| 26 | Farmer Nash was n't at the market , and a few minutes later we saw his angry red face above the wall on the far side of the field . |
| 27 | So the game was n't at the crucial stage . |
| 28 | Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at . |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't at the time , ’ she said , ‘ because I did n't know it was inexplicable . |
| 30 | and so you know looking back on it , was all rather funny but erm , it was n't at the time of course particularly for the children and erm mothers . |