Example sentences of "she [was/were] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mainly there was silence , in still greenish light , as if she were at the bottom of a pool . |
| 2 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 3 | She knew , without any consolation , that she was at the mercy of everything which was most ancient and fearful . |
| 4 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 5 | Kylie enjoyed the performance so much that when a Melbourne football club asked members of the Neighbours cast to sing together at a charity concert , she was at the head of the queue to sign on . |
| 6 | She was at the end of her patience . |
| 7 | She was at the rear of the house here when it was hit by something or other and knocked down . |
| 8 | There she was at the door . ’ |
| 9 | Gorman , 61 — MP for Billericay in Essex — did not appear because she was at the Tory conference in Brighton . |
| 10 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 11 | As usual when drunk , he spoke to her as if she was at the other end of the street . |
| 12 | Two years ago Mrs Ayers went next door to feed Ivy 's cat while she was at the hairdressers when she disturbed burglars at work . |
| 13 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 14 | Kate wished she was at the pantomime . |
| 15 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 16 | She was at the bottom of the stairs , he was two steps up . |
| 17 | She was at the clinic when it was delivered , working on some case notes . |
| 18 | She was at the rear of the clinic . |
| 19 | She was at the gallery in less than five minutes . |
| 20 | ‘ She was at the Lodge ? ’ |
| 21 | She was at the funeral , Victorine said : she would go , poor thing . |
| 22 | There never was any threat from them to Barbara — they did n't know she was at the flat because she was in her room when they burst in . |
| 23 | Either because she was at the bottom end of the family , or because she always had a book to study . |
| 24 | Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified . |
| 25 | He was sitting in the bar with a drink and the evening paper when she came down , and though he appeared not to notice her quiet descent until she was at the foot of the stairs , she had seen him shift his weight some seconds before he looked up , ready to spring to his feet and intercept her . |
| 26 | Now she was at the door of number 28 , which had not been repainted , but still Miss Statham lingered . |
| 27 | He assumed she was guilty , took it for granted that she was at the foot of everything , and that left a bitter taste in her mouth . |
| 28 | For a minute she did n't know where she was and , as she realised she was at the farm , fear stayed firmly with her . |
| 29 | She was at the rectory kitchen door a week later , meeting Rose as she had promised , for tea with her ma and a trip up West in the evening . |
| 30 | For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair . |