Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the experience suggests that their minds are absent on social issues , as Susie confessed hers were during at least part of each day . |
| 2 | Everyone thought they were worth at least £150,000 . |
| 3 | Secondary B.Eds had the same tendency : only two out of 10 had optional courses , and all courses were of at least 20 hours . |
| 4 | ‘ You know what we were like at that age . |
| 5 | Feeling that further conversation was needed , I asked what the roses were like at Sutton that summer . |
| 6 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 7 | PAMELA : Then tell me who you were with at Oxford . |
| 8 | But in the state they were in at present , both physically aroused , she trusted neither Luke nor herself should she prolong their presence here alone together in the tempting privacy of this suite . |
| 9 | The effect of these textile masterpieces on European aesthetic tastes was enormous and by the late 17th century few royal houses were without at least one outstanding example of Persian textile art . |
| 10 | Two prisoners formerly featured in the Letter Writing Campaign , Thoza Khonje and George Mtafu , were among at least 21 political prisoners released in Malawi between January and March this year — all of them long-term detainees held without charge or trial . |
| 11 | We were at at there , and I went with er with my father er on a Friday and we came back that night . |
| 12 | Each thrown egg was worth at least a score of votes . |
| 13 | Sugar had half the company then , was the golden boy of the decade , and was worth at least £600m on paper . |
| 14 | If a charter was booked direct by McIllvanney , and not through either the London or the Fort Lauderdale agencies , then the Ulsterman collected the full fifteen per cent commission , which meant that the senator 's jaunt was worth at least eighteen thousand dollars to McIllvanney . |
| 15 | In despair , one day , of finding a well-fitting winter coat , she hastily counted up the amount of land around Tollemarche which her husband had bought up and decided he was worth at least a Persian lamb coat . |
| 16 | I told him the love and character evident in that sofa was worth at least £50 . |
| 17 | Leaving the whorehouse with the wig tucked under an arm , he reflected that it was worth at least what he had paid to have Surere off his back . |
| 18 | of the value of the scholarship and not bother to apply in the first place , but the major scholarship was worth at its maximum a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 19 | Also , Sheridan was worth at least twice what we got for him . |
| 20 | This record is retained permanently , so if a specimen of rock is put into the detecting instrument , and various careful measurements made , it is possible to find out what the Earth 's magnetic field was like at the time when the basalt cooled from its original molten state . |
| 21 | I just wonder what the security was like at the base from which that plane took off in the States . ’ |
| 22 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 23 | Certainly not to the same degree of hurt , but a taste of what rejection was like at first hand . |
| 24 | Do you remember what it was like at Christmas Fayre ? |
| 25 | The only question was what he was like at saving shots . |
| 26 | Erm , I 'm sure erm Abby is , is supposed to be a fairly accurate representation of what it was like at school . |
| 27 | He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break . |
| 28 | ‘ You probably do n't remember that man I was with at the Iberia cocktail party … ’ |
| 29 | Where he blew out with i he was at at the end of the plane . |
| 30 | First of all you 've got to be satisfied that that actually relates to the unit that was at at Newark . |