Example sentences of "were [adv] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teacher : If you were right at the top of the tower would the people down below you look like ? |
| 2 | Alan Clements , Trafalgar 's chairman , persistently repeated the company 's view that the accounts ‘ were right at the time they were published' , a view supported by David Jenkins , Touche 's partner in charge of the audit . |
| 3 | The they er even in the dining room you , you sort of , there were long tables , well when you came in as , as a student nurse you were right at the bottom of the table , and as you , you know , the second year , third year , fourth year , you gradually moved up and then the , the State Registered Nurses they all sat together . |
| 4 | They were right at the top when doorman Cecil barred their way . |
| 5 | However , the overall left-right balance within the Folketing remained virtually unaltered since the gains by the SD were mostly at the expense of the Socialist People 's Party ( SF ) on the left , and the losses of the coalition parties were balanced by gains of 4.0 per cent and seven seats by the Liberals ( Venstre — Lib . ) . |
| 6 | A lrge percentage of the parachutes used by British airborne servicemen were inside at the time and destroyed at a cost of more than nineteen million pounds . |
| 7 | For example , recall that when anyone aged thirty today was born , computers were rare ; the standard equipment in all offices was a manual typewriter ; jumbo jets were only at the development stage ; transatlantic phone calls went by cable , not satellite ; and television was virtually unseen outside the developed world . |
| 8 | Harbury and Linda Finch were together at a table when she got there . |
| 9 | In all it received three performances , though because father and son were together at the time their own account of its success was not preserved . |
| 10 | He sighed , ‘ Maria Luisa had spoken to Fernando and you were together at the Casa Pinar and I thought everything was hunky-dory — ’ |
| 11 | Some children were sent to widowed grandmothers to live with them for company , or just sleep a few nights , like the seaman 's daughter on the Western Isles who , when all the men were away at the fishing , ‘ used to sleep with granny … bringing the water from the well and bringing in the peat , tidying up the floor and singing songs , for granny she was a very musical lady , yes she was . ’ |
| 12 | I would have liked to specialise in classics or literature , but the teachers of these two subjects were away at the war , so it was necessary to take up mathematics which the headmaster himself taught . |
| 13 | Women whose men were away at the war were still having babies . |
| 14 | Anyway , all the other young men were away at the war , Gustav must have been spending just about all his time indoors , young love wove its spell and … ‘ ow 's yer father ? ’ |
| 15 | Both of them were away at the moment , and so it seemed particularly peaceful this morning . |
| 16 | Both Mike and I were away at the time . |
| 17 | I have n't seen him , I , I think they were away at the weekend |
| 18 | In the period he covered , Schweitzer distinguished three broad stages , in which three distinct issues were successively at the centre of discussion . |
| 19 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 20 | The hunters were soon at the door themselves and bade the monk open up . |
| 21 | The walk-in is easy and we were soon at the foot of the icefall . |
| 22 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 23 | We continued climbing for a short while and were soon at the highest point of our walk . |
| 24 | He and his officer rode at the head of their squadron , and were thus at the very tip of the advancing French army . |
| 25 | The changes were largely at the expense of moorland , heath and rough pasture . |
| 26 | But they were just at the design stage when early on a July morning in 1978 twelve passengers died in a fire on Mark 1 sleeping cars of the Penzance to Paddington overnight train . |
| 27 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 28 | The lads were already at the armoury drawing their rifles , then there was the briefing . |
| 29 | The Asiz were already at the scene of the accident , and the arrival of the company 's interpreter did much to help communication between the Asiz , the local fire brigade and the British Sergeant . |
| 30 | Dolores and her father were already at the table , and her two brothers were just washing their hands in the kitchen with young Pablo the fisherman who was Lina 's intended . |