Example sentences of "was at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a little girl who lived across from Ali 's old Louisville home when he was at the top . |
| 2 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 3 | Socially , he was at the top of the ladder and he lived to the limits of his wealth . |
| 4 | Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase and afforded views of the square outside . |
| 5 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 6 | He was born when Brigitte was at the top , living as a spoilt star with actor-husband Jacques Charrier . |
| 7 | The apartment Ludovico took Constance to was at the top of an old palazzo in Via Santo Spirito , a dark street dominated by the cupola of Chiesa Santo Spirito , the vast Renaissance church at the end of the road . |
| 8 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 9 | It was at the top of a small staircase , well away from the heart of the building . |
| 10 | It seems that it was only yesterday that singer/songwriter/activist Sinead O'Connor was at the top of the charts and could ‘ do not wrong ’ as far as the record buying public goes . |
| 11 | Dad was at the top of the cliff , looking down . |
| 12 | And er that too was at the top of the building , and that was in , oh a series , of little rooms , although the shop was big and beautiful , down below . |
| 13 | Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames . |
| 14 | The new flat was at the top of a tall house in Bloomsbury , round the back of the British Museum . |
| 15 | It was at the top of the house , and very big . |
| 16 | On one occasion Crawford was left hanging above the stage for ten minutes when there was a bomb scare and everyone left the theatre quickly , forgetting that the top-of-the-bill was at the top of the stage . |
| 17 | They said an army sniper aimed a rifle with a telescopic sight at Jihad Mustafa Ali Sadek , 22 , and shot him in the back while he was at the top of his mosque 's minaret . |
| 18 | Prior to the war the bakers was at the top of the tree of tradesmen . |
| 19 | It was propped against the wall of a house , + a man was at the top of it , painting a wall with white paint . |
| 20 | She just had to turn out , and there was nothing coming down , foot down , opened up , got I was at the top of the hill and she was nowhere in sight . |
| 21 | But you said he was at the bottom of the stairs I was at the top and you were in his office |
| 22 | So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom . |
| 23 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 24 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 25 | But it omitted any reference to the dangers of ‘ Leftism ’ , despite the fact that Deng had stressed this , and that it was at the heart of a party politburo statement . |
| 26 | A defeatist , appeasement-like attitude often was at the heart of federalist thinking found in some parts of the City of London but is repudiated by those such as Professor Tim Congdon in the Sunday Telegraph on 20 October 1991 — ‘ City 's Silly Euro-scare ’ . |
| 27 | Hamilton was at the heart of our defence that day and every one of them were heroes , but it was Hamilton who subdued Jimmy Trotter ( later the manager of Charlton ) who was Wednesday 's most dangerous forward . |
| 28 | On 1 October the Italians proposed to the convention 's scientific committee that the reactor ‘ pot ’ , which was at the heart of the explosion , should be dumped , 700 km off the Spanish coast in the area used annually by Britain for dumping nuclear waste . |
| 29 | This idea was at the heart of the movement , and in accordance with this scheme the right-angled Swastika was employed ; the symbol of Siva and metamorphosis ; the purpose — evolution . |
| 30 | Morris was at the heart of an amazing North defensive effort to hold on to a 24-17 half-time lead in the face of a strong second-half wind . |