Example sentences of "[verb] it was at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage . |
| 2 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 3 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 4 | The pathologist had said it was at this stage impossible to give an opinion but the report also said the police were treating the case as murder . |
| 5 | When the orchestra reassembled it was at full strength and they played Richard Strauss 's Tone Poem ‘ Heldenleben ’ more or less from start to finish . |
| 6 | I should have thought it was at the bottom |
| 7 | And the telephone number I remember to this day , was Porthmadog so that shows it was at least probably the telephone to go into being in Porthmadog . |
| 8 | When he arrived it was at a very particular time of day . |
| 9 | Well I know it was at Street at one time . |
| 10 | On winter night shifts it was at its worst . |
| 11 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 12 | That 's what I thought it was at first but when he said it the next time it sounded different , it was nymph , rag nymph , that 's what he called me . |
| 13 | did n't like us , oh no , no , no matter where we went there was always , there was n't trouble like there is now , I mean there was no violence as such you know , but we thought it was at the time , you know , they were n't very nice to us at all |
| 14 | I thought it was at the tenth anniversary , every five years after that , I did n't realise that came into , John said it was . |
| 15 | Equally , it would be no defence to the charge of insulting behaviour founded upon , for example , handing out leaflets seeking to persuade soldiers to desert that it was not the leafleter 's intention to insult , so long as the leaflet was in fact insulting , and the person distributing it was at least aware that it might be regarded as insulting by the person to whom it was addressed . |
| 16 | Actually , I think it was at the opening of Pork because Andy came to the opening and David had that song on the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album called ‘ Andy Warhol ’ , so we made sure they met . ’ |
| 17 | In those days a wing commander engineering officer was still a GD pilot but after the long course ( I think it was at Henlow , on engineering ) they devoted all their energies to full time engineering . |
| 18 | Yeah he mentioned to me about a month ago well I think it was at Christmas , it was probably at Christmas time |
| 19 | I think it was at Maitlands the lovely shop |
| 20 | And also I think it was at |
| 21 | Um if you go back to the eighteenth century , early nineteenth century , you find that um I think it was at er Winchester possibly , er some some of you may have heard of this in in History or something , er there was an uprising at Winchester school and the Army had to be called in to quell the rioting pupils because they were rebelling against the harsh conditions . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Kettle admits it was at his request that next Tuesday 's HFS home game with Horwich was arranged . |
| 23 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 24 | Maman said it was at the back , the other way from the bathroom end of the corridor . |
| 25 | He told me more , he said it was at a farm near Park . |
| 26 | A spokesman for North Wales Police said it was at least heartening to note that the rate of increase of vehicle crime up to June this year was less than for the previous 12 months . |
| 27 | I was determined it was at the burn that came down by the distillery at the edge of the town . |
| 28 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |